New Horizons Team Finds ‘Mountain In A Moat’ On Charon

Credit: NASA/APL/SWRI
A new image collected by the New Horizons spacecraft shortly before its closest approach to Pluto July 14 shows a strange formation on the surface of the dwarf planet’s large moon Charon. The compressed data shows a few impact craters south of one of the long, deep canyons discovered on the moon...

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