Pluto’s icy landscape comes into view
New Horizons reveals varied terrain, evidence of active geology
![surface of Pluto](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/pluto_feat_free.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
Mountains of water ice roughly as tall as the Rockies tower over a young landscape to the south of Pluto’s heart-shaped region. Snows of nitrogen and methane blanket the peaks. On the dwarf planet, water ice probably behaves like bedrock on Earth.
NASA, JHUAPL, SWRI