Pluto’s Wright Mons in Color Scientists with NASA’s New Horizons mission have assembled this highest-resolution color view of one of two potential cryovolcanoes spotted on the surface of Pluto by the New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015. via NASA http://ift.tt/1nlrIaw
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