An unmanned spacecraft paid a history-making flyby visit to the dwarf planet Pluto
The Nasa image shows a close-up image of a region near Pluto's equator a range with mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet. (Photo: AFP)
Cape Canaveral: Nasa’s New Horizons, an unmanned spacecraft paid a history-making flyby visit to the dwarf planet Pluto on Tuesday after a journey of 9 years and 4.8 billion kilometres. The pictures showed ice mountains on Pluto about as high as the Rockies and chasms on its big moon Charon that appear six times deeper than the Grand Canyon.
Scientists were astonished by the absence of impact craters in a zoom-in shot of one otherwise rugged slice of Pluto. That suggests that Pluto is not the dead ice ball many people think.
( Source : AFP )
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