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It took 9.5 years to get this close, but you can now take a virtual flight over Pluto in this animation of image data from the New Horizons spacecraft. The Plutonian terrain unfolding 48,000 miles (77,000 kilometers) below is identified as Norgay Montes, followed by Sputnik Planum. The icy mountains, informally named for one of the first two Mount Everest climbers Tenzing Norgay, reach up to 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the surface. The frozen, young, craterless plains are informally named for the Earth’s first artificial satellite. Sputnik Planum is north of Norgay Montes, within Pluto’s expansive, bright, heart-shaped feature provisionally known as Tombaugh Regio for Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto in 1930.
中文翻譯:
經過9.5年的等待，你現在可以通過這個來自新地平線(New Horizons)太空船的動畫，進行一段虛擬的冥王星(Pluto)之旅。畫面中展現的冥冥地形有48,000英里（77,000公里）之長，其中的諾嘉山(Norgay Montes)山脈和史普特尼克平原(Sputnik Planum)令人印象深刻。這些冰凍的山脈，非正式名稱來自於首位登頂珠穆朗瑪峰的登山者之一丹增·諾嘉(Tenzing Norgay)，高度可達11,000英尺（3,500米）以上。而這些冰凍、年輕、無隕石坑的平原則是紀念地球首顆人造衛星的名稱。史普特尼克平原位於諾嘉山以北，坐落在冥王星那個廣闊、明亮的心形特徵區，暫名為湯博(D. Tombaugh)區，這位天文學家於1930年發現了冥王星。
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來源:NASA每日圖片
