Pluto looks splendid in a new photo by NASA’s approaching New Horizons probe. The image, which New Horizons took July 7 , 2015 8 million kilometers from Pluto, shows a large, heart-shaped feature on the dwarf planet’s surface.
Points to Pay attention:
- The bright “heart” is about 1,200 miles (2,000 km) wide.
- To its left lies an 1,860-mile-long (3,000 km) dark patch along Pluto’s equator that mission scientists are calling “the whale.”
- Pluto was assigned dwarf planet in the year 2006.
- It is the tenth-most-massive known body directly orbiting the Sun.