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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto on July 14, 2015.

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Pluto Has White-Capped Mountains, But Not Because There's Snow

5:19pm October 13, 2020

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

Mountains on Pluto look strikingly similar to white-capped peaks on Earth, but these cold, alien mountains got whitened in a completely different way.