Flying over Pluto’s Sputnik Planum

This movie is based on images taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft. In the first half of the movie, you can see 3-D model of Sputnik planum in enhanced colors. In the second part, you can see the same model using a ’scattering map’ as the texture. This type of processing helps to bring out intricate, never-before-seen patterns in the surface textures of these glacial plains. NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/Roman Tkachenko