Pluto flyover: Norgay Montes, Sputnik Planum and Cthulhu Regio

2,185 views · Published 18 September 2015 · 1:11 · Indexed 25 September 2026

Channel: SciNews · 2015 · Science & Technology

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Animations, made with real images taken by New Horizons, present Pluto as seen by the spacecraft during approach and details from the latest images composed into a virtual fly over the informally named Norgay Montes, Sputnik Planum and Cthulhu Regio. 

Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI, Stuart Robbins

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