Amazing Pluto facts that New Horizons found
Here are seven of some the biggest so far.
The New Horizons mission to Pluto isn’t rewriting the textbooks, says NASA spokesman Dwayne Brown.
The New Horizons team has informally named Pluto’s icy mountain ranges for the first two men known to reach the peak of Mount Everest, though …
That heart-shaped feature in the iconic image put together by the NASA team as New Horizons approached the ninth planet is real.
No, we’re not talking about Pluto the dog, whose name was changed by the Disney folks from Rover to Pluto shortly after Clyde Tombaugh discove…
Scientists expected Pluto’s surface to be pocked with craters.
For most of its life Pluto has been the incredible shrinking planet. When first discovered, astronomers thought it was the size of Jupiter, th…
The real color images of Pluto captured by New Horizons show it to have a variety of light and dark features — with an overall rusty red tint.
Flying over Pluto’s icy plains and Hillary Mountains. NASA video
