New Horizons Reveals Pluto’s 248-Year World of Blue Haze and Floating Ice Mountains
New Horizons Reveals Pluto's Blue Sky, Floating Ice Mountains, and Active Geologyliquid nitrogen on Pluto: In 2015, NASA's New Horizons flew past Pluto and captured detailed images of its frozen surface. More than a decade later, scientists revisited the images and found evidenceIn 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft revealed something nobody expected: Pluto has icy mountains rising up to 11,000 feet, about 3,500 meters high. Scientists think these peaks are made mostly of waterPluto may look like a frozen, lifeless world, but its surface is surprisingly active. One of its most fascinating features is a gigantic glacier made not of water, but nitrogen ice. PlutoThe close-up images captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its historic flyby of Pluto in July 2015 revealed a rich geological past that greatly challenged previous assumptions about the dwarf planet.