Mapping Pluto A spinnable map of Pluto in enhanced color. Rippled hills An enhanced color image of a “snakeskin” texture on part of Pluto’s surface. Sputnik Planum A high-resolution ...

On Pluto they appear to be larger — but still ... "false color" image of the planet that enhances its composition and texture. Figuring out that relationship is one of the research scientists ...

2015 shows a combination of images captured by the New Horizons spacecraft with enhanced colours to show differences in the composition and texture of Pluto's surface. Sputnik Planitia is aligned ...

(All of the feature names on Pluto are informal ... "There is a pronounced difference in texture between the younger, frozen plains to the east and the dark, heavily cratered terrain to the ...

Pluto is probably best known for being a demoted planet. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union stripped it of its original classification, after narrowing the definition of a planet to be ...

What Pluto can teach us about planets and our solar system : Short Wave Pluto hasn't been a planet for almost 20 years. In the early 2000s, scientists discovered several objects of a similar size ...

Scientists have discovered carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of Charon, Pluto's largest moon, offering clues about the origins of the space rock and other celestial objects in ...