New Horizons captures frozen floating hills in Pluto
Q. Which NASA spacecraft has captured images of frozen nitrogen glaciers on Pluto carrying floating hills?- Published on 08 Feb 16a. New Horizons
b. Cassini
c. Juno
d. None of the above
ANSWER: New Horizons
NASA’s New Horizons has captured images of frozen nitrogen glaciers on Pluto with plenty of floating hills which could be water ice fragments, providing insight into the abundant geological activity of the dwarf planet. Hill measures 1 to 7 kilometers and the hills are in the cast ice plain celled Sputnik Planum within the heart of Pluto, which is a miniature version of the larger mountains on the western border.
