How the surface of Pluto got its peculiar polygonal shapes
Wednesday, June 1, 2016 - 12:21
in Astronomy & Space
When NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft beamed back the first close-up images of Pluto’s surface in July of 2015, scientists were flabbergasted. In those early, dizzying days last summer, the cold, distant dwarf planet was revealed to be a diverse and geologically active world with wide flat plains,...