The colossal mountain on Pluto's equator is revealed here in astonishing detail (see storyboard for development phases).
From a jaw dropping
5 billion kilometer distance the HMIR technique was able to pinpoint individual rock formations, an odd Y-shaped summit and scattered ice or snow fields dotting the dwarf planet's bizarre surface.
The image also allows a more precise rough estimate of the mountain's height: 473Km. The base of the mountain measures aproximately 1022Km.
While documenting Pluto's full rotation Spacenow found out that at least two more sizeable planetary-scale mountains exist on Pluto. One at the Northern Pole and another in the same mid-latidude of the gigantic one.
These new discoveries will soon be exhibited here on the Pluto page.
MEADE 14” LX200, SBIG ST2K. Exposure time: 60 seconds in high resolution.
Image development in CCDops, Maxim DL4 and Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
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