NASA discovers snow-capped mountains on Pluto
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has released images of a chain of snow-capped mountains on Pluto. Informally named Cthulhu Regio, the mountain range stretches nearly halfway around Pluto’s equator and is a bit larger than the state of Alaska. Approximately 3,000 kilometers long and 750 kilometers wide, the mountains appear to be capped with methane ice condensed from Pluto's atmosphere.