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FRANCE: The latest pictures to be beamed back from the far reaches of the solar system show a newly discovered mountain range on Pluto and the first close-up images of two of the dwarf planet’s smaller moons.
NASA’s New Horizons probe has discovered the mountain range on a bright, heart-shaped region named the Tombaugh Regio. Its frozen peaks are estimated to be 1500 metres high.
The Norgay Mountains discovered by New Horizons on July 15 are much taller, about 3350 metres.
The new range is just west of the region within Pluto’s heart called Sputnik Plain and about 100 kilometres north-west of the Norgay Mountains.
