Pluto

Image of Pluto taken by New Horizons

What’s warming Pluto’s icy heart?

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New Horizons gets to the heart of Pluto

The diversity of Pluto’s surface is visible in this shot, showing the various surfaces and landforms on the dwarf planet. This 350km wide image shows cratered terrain, mountains and a field of dark ridges that look like dunes.

New Horizons reveals latest Pluto images

Astronomer James Christy pictured with the photographic plate on which he and Robert Harrington discovered Pluto’s largest moon Charon, in 1978. Credit: U.S. Naval Observatory

How Pluto’s moon Charon was discovered

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The Story of the Solar System: Geysers on Triton

Dune-like features can be seen in Sputnik Planitia, which scientists believe were caused by thermal winds transporting grains of methane ice. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

Ice dunes discovered on Pluto

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New Horizons: ice volcanoes and spinning moons

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Pluto’s icy mountains revealed

New Horizons images of Pluto's largest moon, taken on 11 July 2015, reveal chasms, craters and a dark polar region.
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New Horizons reveals Charon’s surface features

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Cheltenham Science Festival: The Kuiper Belt