Image: Snakeskin terrain on Pluto (PIA19957)
Description: Original description: In this extended color image of Pluto taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, rounded and bizarrely textured mountains, informally named the Tartarus Dorsa, rise up along Pluto's day-night terminator and show intricate but puzzling patterns of blue-gray ridges and reddish material in between. This view, roughly 330 miles (530 kilometers) across, combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC) on July 14, 2015, and resolves details and colors on scales as small as 0.8 miles (1.3 kilometers).
Title: Snakeskin terrain on Pluto (PIA19957)
Credit: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19957 (see also http://www.nasa.gov/feature/perplexing-pluto-new-snakeskin-image-and-more-from-new-horizons)
Author: NASA
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