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Description	English: PIA20151: Pluto's Pits http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA20151 New Horizons cameras have spied swarms of mysterious "pits" across the informally named Sputnik Planum. Scientists believe the pits may form through a combination of sublimation and ice fracturing. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, designed, built, and operates the New Horizons spacecraft, and manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. The Southwest Research Institute, based in San Antonio, leads the science team, payload operations and encounter science planning. New Horizons is part of the New Frontiers Program managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Date	10 November 2015
Source	http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA20151.jpg
Author	NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
Other versions	Wider view of Sputnik Planum (crop of PIA19936) to provide context for the closeup images of sublimation pits Uncropped version of image PIA19936, showing all of Sputnik Planum

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