NASA release new images of dwarf planet Pluto

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MEXICO: NASA released a new set of high resolution images of the dwarf planet Pluto on Thursday afternoon.
All of these pictures are taken by space probe New Horizons during its pass-by of Pluto in July. One image shows heart shaped region on the dwarf planet covered in ice.
The space probe launched in 2006, took more than 9 years to reach Pluto. The space probe looked at Pluto’s dark side and jetted off into a distant part of our solar system. It is currently 43 million miles away from Pluto.
“The each part of Pluto’s surface is as complex as that of Mars,” said Jeff Moore, leader of the New Horizons Geology, GGI team at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, in a statement. “The randomly muddled up mountains might be big chunks of hard water ice floating within a softer, wide and denser deposit of chilled nitrogen within the region named Sputnik Planum.”
The statement also read that the “new pictures show the most massively cratered and thus oldest terrain ever seen by New Horizons on Pluto next to the younger, crater-free frozen plains. Among other possibilities as per images, there might even be a ground of dark wind-blown sand dunes.
Even higher resolution images of Pluto’s moons will be released today at the raw images site for New Horizons’ LORRI, revealing that each moon of Pluto is unique and that it’s biggest moon Charon has geological history that was torturous.