Sputnik Planum (IMAGE)

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Sputnik Planum

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The polygons of Pluto's Sputnik Planum region are shown in an image captured by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager on NASA's New Horizon's spacecraft.

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(Image courtesy of NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute)

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