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Sputnik Planum is the informal name of the smooth, light-bulb shaped region on the left of this composite of several...
This annotated view of a portion of Pluto's Sputnik Planum (Sputnik Plain), named for Earth's first artificial...
This high-resolution image captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft combines blue, red and infrared images taken...
This geological map covers a portion of Pluto's surface that measures 1,290 miles (2,070 kilometers) from top to...
This image contains the initial, informal names being used by NASA's New Horizons team for the features on Pluto's...
Images downloaded from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft (through Sept. 11, 2015) were stitched together and rendered...
NASA New Horizons spacecraft took this image of Pluto vast nitrogen ice plain informally named Sputnik Planum.
New Horizons views of the informally named Sputnik Planum on Pluto (top) and the informally named Vulcan Planum on...
In this highest-resolution image from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, great blocks of Pluto's water-ice crust appear...
Ice (probably frozen nitrogen) that appears to have accumulated on the uplands on the right side of this 390-mile...
NASA New Horizons cameras have spied swarms of mysterious pits across the informally named Sputnik Planum....
NASA New Horizons spacecraft captured this feature which appears to be a frozen, former lake of liquid nitrogen,...
This shaded relief view from NASA New Horizons of the region surrounding the left side of Pluto heart-shaped...
This geological map from NASA New Horizons covers a portion of Pluto surface and includes the vast nitrogen-ice...
NASA New Horizons scientists believe that the informally named feature Wright Mons, located south of Sputnik Planum...
Mosaic of high-resolution images of Pluto, sent back from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft from Sept. 5 to 7, 2015....
In the center of this 300-mile (470-kilometer) wide image of Pluto from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is a large...
Mosaic of high-resolution images of Pluto, transmitted by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft from Sept. 5 to 7, 2015....
Images of Pluto taken by NASA New Horizons spacecraft before closest approach on July 14, 2015, reveal features as...
The backlighting highlights the intricate flow lines on the glaciers. The flow front of the ice is moving into the...
This enhanced color mosaic combines some of the sharpest views of Pluto that NASA's New Horizons spacecraft obtained...
At center left of Pluto vast heart-shaped feature "Tombaugh Regio" -- lies a vast, craterless plain that appears to...
Just 15 minutes after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft looked back...
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft continues to transmit the sharpest views of Pluto that it obtained (and recorded)...