Unusual Icy Plains Seen On Pluto

Here is a bit more on the landscape and how exciting this is from an accomplishment perspective from one team member:

“I’m still having to remind myself to take deep breaths,” New Horizons team member Jeff Moore, of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, said during a news briefing today. “The landscape is just astoundingly amazing.”

Sputnik Planum is devoid of craters, indicating it has been reshaped by geological activity in the very recent past. The area cannot be more than 100 million years old, and may in fact still be active today, researchers said.

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thanks to livescience.com for the great info

thanks to NASA for the pic



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