The four dark spots with a black border linked. Geologists suspect that it might be a mountain is about 480 km is large. The above picture was taken at a distance of 4 million kilometers from Pluto. Within three days there may be more clarity on the possible Mountains, because the NASA probe makes its first flyby of the dwarf planet.
New Horizons left nine years ago from the Earth and has now become a journey of nearly five billion kilometers sit on. The probe collects a wealth of information about the dwarf planet Pluto and its moons. The issue of New Horizons is to get all that information back to Earth. It will take 16 months to get all the details in the coming days will be collected, and to do.
After the New Horizons flyby over Pluto will continue its journey to the outer reaches of the solar system and beyond in the penetrate Kuiper Belt. It is intended that the probe since one or two Kuiper-belt objects studying
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