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New Horizons Is Awake At Pluto   The Planets + Pluto!

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The Big Science Blog

NASA releases new 'head-scratcher' images of Pluto

"Seeing dunes on Pluto - if that is what they are - would be completely wild, because Pluto's atmosphere today is so thin," said William B. McKinnon, a GGI deputy lead from Washington University, St. Louis, in a news release. "Either Pluto had a thicker atmosphere in the past, or some process we haven't figured out is at work.

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9/17/15

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Pluto's Majestic Mountains Revealed in New Photo From New Horizons

Behold Pluto in all of its glory. NASA today released a panoramic image, taken from the New Horizons flyby, showing the dwarf planet's mountains and plains in stunning new detail with the sun back-lighting the features of the icy world. The photo also shows a haze in Pluto's extended nitrogen-rich atmosphere.

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