One piece of the newly expanded ground we're seeing here shows a section of Pluto near the Southern pole of Pluto. As Jeff Moore, New Horizons Co-Investigator, NASA Ames explained, this image is North and South as we'd expect to see it on a standard map.
You'll see two areas marked with brand new names.
First we'll be seeing the Norgay Montes area in images below, then an area within the Sputnik Planum region.
"This terrain is not easy to explain," said Moore, "the discovery of vast, craterless, very young plains on Pluto exceeds all pre-flyby expectations."
Again, this area goes by the name of "Sputnik Planum" (Sputnik Plain) after the Earth’s first artificial satellite.
"This are could be a hundred million years old, but it could have geological processes still active today," said Moore. "All of this suggests that Pluto has had a long and complicated geological past,
"This is a vast, crater less plains that has a very interesting story to tell."
The next image you're seeing here shows a place where the crew believe they've found wind streaks. Winds would be traveling from a North-West to South-Eastly direction, if these images are indeed indicators of wind.
"With the flyby in the rearview mirror," said Jim Green, director of Planetary Science at NASA Headquarters in Washington, "a decade-long journey to Pluto is over --but, the science payoff is only beginning. Data from New Horizons will continue to fuel discovery for years to come."
http://www.slashgear.com/new-horizons-reveal-plutos-wildly-varied-landscape-17393399/
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In the center left of Pluto's vast heart-shaped feature lies a vast, crater-less plain than is suspected to be no more than 100 million years old. Slide left to see an annotated view of the region, dubbed Pluto's Sputnik Planum. Mounds and fields of small pits are visible across the surface, alongside irregularly shaped segments that are ringed by narrow troughs, some of which contain darker material��
In the latest data from New Horizons, a new close-up image of Pluto reveals a vast, craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100 million years old, and is possibly still being shaped by geologic processes.
This frozen region is north of Pluto's icy mountains, in the center-left of the heart feature, informally named 'Tombaugh Regio' after Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto in 1930.
'This terrain is not easy to explain,' said Jeff Moore, leader of the New Horizons Geology, Geophysics and Imaging Team (GGI). 'The discovery of vast, craterless, very young plains on Pluto exceeds all pre-flyby expectations.'
This fascinating icy plains region - resembling frozen mud cracks on Earth - has been informally named 'Sputnik Planum' (Sputnik Plain) after the Earth's first artificial satellite.
It has a broken surface of irregularly-shaped segments, roughly 12 miles (20km) across, bordered by what appear to be shallow troughs.
Some of these troughs have darker material within them, while others are traced by clumps of hills that appear to rise above the surrounding terrain.
Elsewhere, the surface appears to be etched by fields of small pits that may have formed by a process called sublimation, in which ice turns directly from solid to gas, just as dry ice does on Earth.
Scientists have two working theories as to how these segments were formed.
The irregular shapes may be the result of the contraction of surface materials, similar to what happens when mud dries.
New Horizons also released its first up-close image of Nix — one of Pluto's five known moons, named after the Greek goddess of darkness and night.
Mission scientists believe the image shows one end of an elongated body about 25 miles (40km) in diameter.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3165555/The-solar-saved-best-Nasa-releases-stunning-images-mountains-vast-icy-plains-mysterious-heart-dwarf-planet.html#ixzz3gAwmM3IH
