That heart-shaped feature in the iconic image put together by the NASA team as New Horizons approached the ninth planet is real.
It’s outlines may blur — or be enhanced — as more data is received, but it is there and it is a real region of icy plains outlined by darker features, including those two mountain ranges.
The team informally named it Tombaugh Regio in honor of Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh.