NASA's New Horizons Beams Back Pluto Map; Features Resemble 'Whale' And 'Donut'

NASA’s New Horizon’s spacecraft has beamed back a new map of Pluto’s light and dark surface features including pixelated areas that the mission science team says resemble the shapes of a “whale” and a “donut.” Planetary scientists are quick to point out that although oddly-shaped, they are completely natural and most likely due to the dwarf planet’s unique dark topography and brightly-colored condensing surface frosts.