Frozen Plains Glimpsed on Pluto

U.S. Space Agency NASA released more photos of the surface of Pluto showing smooth, frozen plains, following the first spacecraft flyby of the distant dwarf planet. Close-up photographs of the vast plains were released Friday, several days after the first set of pictures from the New Horizons mission revealed a range of icy mountains as high as 3,500 meters above Pluto's surface. Scientists said the mountains and plains were likely formed no more than 100 million years ago, a...

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