Eat Your Heart Out Pluto

Images from the New Horizons spacecraft show a bite-mark shaped feature on the surface of Pluto. Scientists think that the feature is caused by the sublimation of methane ice, causing cliffs to erode and leaving a flat plain in their place. The images were captured just prior to New Horizon's closest approach to Pluto on July 14th, 2015. In the image above, which is of Pluto's western hemisphere, three main features are shown. The first is Vega Terra, which as a raised plateau area. The second i...