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Mysterious 'Floating Hills' Of Pluto Revealed In New NASA Images

Pluto just keeps getting weirder.  NASA released new images last week of what the space agency described as "floating hills," essentially massive icebergs drifting in a sea of frozen nitrogen.  These hills, which can be several miles across, are located in the middle of the Sputnik Planum, or the icy plains of the planet's heart-shaped region: The region is home to glaciers as well as clusters of these frozen hills, which NASA said could be fragments of water ice from the nearby uplands.

 

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