The jagged surface of Pluto

NASA published a detailed video describing Pluto terrain and Charon satellite based on data collected by the spacecraft.

NASA published a detailed video describing Pluto terrain and Charon satellite based on data collected by the spacecraft.


Pluto and Charon satellite terrain.(Video: NASA.)

Scientists from the US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) published a video describing the surface of Pluto and Charon built from New Horizons spacecraft and 3D models, Mashable on 14th. / 7 reported.

Flight simulation video on Pluto shows plateaus, plains of Sputnik Planitia, Mount Tartarus Dorsa. The Serenity Chasma and Dorothy Gale ravine on Charon, Pluto's biggest moon, also appeared.

Two videos were published to commemorate the New Horizons spacecraft carrying out a roundabout flight around Pluto on July 14, 2015, bringing a new and sharper view of the planet's terrain and the Charon satellite .

In 2006, the International Astronomical Society put Pluto on a dwarf planet. Kirby Runyon, planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University in the United States, proposed a new definition in March, which brought Pluto back to the list of planets in the solar system.

Update 17 December 2018
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