Weird new landmarks on Ultima Thule come into focus with sharpest image yet

On January 1 the New Horizons probe whizzed past Ultima Thule, a tiny world on the fringe of the solar system. Data is still streaming back to Earth, and now the latest image shows the object closer and in higher resolution than ever before. With that improved clarity comes some intriguing new landmarks on the rocky surface.

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Category: Space

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• Images
• Johns Hopkins University
• Kuiper Belt
• NASA
• New Horizons
• Spacecraft

from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2S5qWBt