New Horizons Sees Features on Pluto!

At a press conference on Wednesday astronomers working on the New Horizons space probe revealed new images that show surface features on Pluto for the first time! The probe was just over 100 million kilometers from Pluto when the images were taken on April 12-18 (the Earth is 150 million km from the Sun, for comparison). Hubble images taken over the years have shown the diminutive world has darker and lighter patches on its surface, and these images match that.  In fact, these images are now at...