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Pluto’s Bladed Terrain

Pluto's bladed terrain as seen from NASA's New Horizons during its July 2015 flyby.
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Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
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Pluto's bladed terrain as seen from NASA's New Horizons during its July 2015 flyby.

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, designed, built, and operates the New Horizons spacecraft, and manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. The Southwest Research Institute, based in San Antonio, leads the science team, payload operations and encounter science planning. New Horizons is part of the New Frontiers Program managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.