11″ [3][g] Atmosphere Surface pressure 1.0 Pa (2015) [7][13] Composition by volume Nitrogen , methane , carbon monoxide [14] Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf...
to surface features on Pluto. On 7 September 2017, the first 14 names were officially approved by the IAU.[6] As of August 2015, the New Horizons science team derives informal names from...
This is a list of named geological features on Pluto, identified by scientists working with data from the New Horizons spacecraft. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially...
NASA initially referred to it as "the Whale" in reference to its overall shape.[15][16] Surface features of Pluto were initially given provisional, informal names that are selected from a...
of Pluto's surface consists of solid nitrogen, with traces of methane and carbon monoxide.... Indications of complex geological features north of the dark equatorial regions Tartarus Dorsa...
Other features on Pluto, which the IAU has demoted to “dwarf planet” status, pay homage... A deep dent in the surface is named Adlivun Cavus after Adlivun, the underworld in Inuit...
The mystery of how Pluto got a giant heart-shaped feature on its surface has finally been solved by an international team of astrophysicists led by the University of Bern and members of the Nationa...
For the first time, images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft are revealing bright and dark regions on the surface of faraway Pluto – the primary target of
A high seasonal thermal inertia of Pluto's surface is an important driver of deposition of... tectonic features seen across Pluto.[18][23] Alternatively, if the accumulation of ice in a...
Introduction ; Pluto is a complex and mysterious world with mountains, valleys, plains, craters, and glaciers. It is located in the distant Kuiper Belt. Discovered in 1930, Pluto was long considered our solar system's ninth planet. But after the discovery of similar worlds deeper in the Kuiper Belt, Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union. According to the 2006 IAU Resolution, "a dwarf planet is an object in orbit around the Sun that is large enou...