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  New Horizons - backlit mountains of PlutoAug 18, 2021 8:11 PM PDT | url
 
Added 1 new A* page:
(image by NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)
 
^That's from a batch of photos NASA recently posted of the dramatically backlit surface of Pluto, taken by the New Horizons probe. You can see there 11,000-foot-high mountains, and layers of hazes in the dwarf planet's "tenuous but distended" atmosphere. Other photos appear to show "hints of a nitrogen-based glacial cycle."
 
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The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )
 
 
 
 
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