EUROPE: Haunting new photographs of dwarf plant Pluto have been released by NASA.
The images show Pluto’s icy mountains, flat ice plains and foggy hazes backlit by a near-setting sun.
They were taken on July 14 just 15 minutes after the New Horizons spacecraft made its closest approach to Pluto.
The Plutonian landscapes, which were photographed from 18,000 kilometres away, have an uncanny resemblance to scenes of the Arctic.
“This image really makes you feel you are there, at Pluto, surveying the landscape for yourself,” New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern said of one photograph.
He described another as “a scientific bonanza” that revealed new details about Pluto’s atmosphere, mountains, glaciers and plains.
The photographs, NASA said, also reveal new information about the hazes in Pluto’s extended nitrogen atmosphere.
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