File:Pluto’s Heart - Like a Cosmic Lava Lamp.jpg

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English: Scientists from NASA’s New Horizons mission used state-of-the-art computer simulations to show that the surface of Pluto’s informally named Sputnik Planum is covered with churning ice "cells" that are geologically young and turning over due to a process called convection. The scene above, which is about 250 miles (400 kilometers) across, uses data from the New Horizons Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC), gathered July 14, 2015.
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Source http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nh-mckinnon_etal_nature_cover_trimmed.jpg
See also http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA20726
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