Icy Plains of Tombaugh Regio

During last Friday’s media conference, the New Horizons Team released the image below showing troughs and pits in the icy plains of a region of Pluto now known as Tombaugh Regio.  Visit http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/ for updates and additional information.

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

 

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