Pluto at Dusk: Spectacular, and Spookily Earthlike

[AF-Roger]

Ice, probably frozen nitrogen, that accumulated on the highlands (right) is draining from Pluto’s mountains into the informally named Sputnik Planum through a series of valleys (red arrows). The flow front of the ice moving into Sputnik Planum is outlined by the blue arrows.

The setting sun illuminates a fog or near-surface haze, cut by the parallel shadows of many local hills and small mountains on Pluto

Article: Pluto at Dusk: Spectacular, and Spookily Earthlike – Phenomena: No Place Like Home

 

[azgold]

Wowwww!

It still amazes me that they can get pictures like this. Just blows my mind. I can't take a picture that good here on earth when the subject is three feet in front of me.

 

[AF-Roger]

I agree. I thought it was pretty amazing