Frozen mountains on Pluto and ice polygons in Tombaugh Regio
Frozen mountains on Pluto and ice polygons in Tombaugh Regio
This image strip, a composite of several pictures, shows Pluto in one of the highest resolutions achieved with the LORRI camera and the Ralph/MVIC (Multivisual Imaging Camera) recording system during the flyby on 14 July 2015 from a distance of 17,000 kilometres. The images show details on the scale of a sports hall, with the best resolutionbeing 77 metres per pixel. The colour data superimposed on the LORRI images have a lower resolution. The image detail shows an 80-kilometre-wide strip of the icy landscape of Pluto, with the strikingly smooth Sputnik Planitia on the right and the approximately 1,500-metre al-Idrisi Mountains on the left. It is the transition region from the heart-shaped Tombaugh Regio and its ice polygons to a mountain range of brittle water ice.
