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July 15, 2015

Pluto Presents!

By Wyrd Smythe

Hot off the press! Check out Pluto’s first close up:

Pluto Surface 1

The young surface of Pluto (the planet)! [click for NASA source]

Those mountains are up to 11,000 feet high! And the surface looks to be roughly 100 million years old — extremely young compared to the four-and-a-half billion year age of the solar system (and not a crater in sight!).

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