![]() Sputnik Planitia: The large plain is named after Sputnik 1, the first-ever space satellite, which was launched by the Soviet Union 4 October 1957.Īl-Idrisi Montes: It honours Ash-Sharif al-Idrisi, a noted Arab mapmaker and geographer, who created the first most accurate map of the world in pre-modern times.ĭjanggawul Fossae: The network of long, narrow depressions has been named after Djanggawuls, three ancestral beings in indigenous Australian mythology who travelled between the island of the dead and Australia, creating the landscape and filling it with vegetation. Other names had been used informally by the New Horizons science team to describe the regions, mountain ranges, plains, valleys and craters discovered on Pluto during the close flyby by the New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015 that gave the first close-up look at the surfaces of the planet and its largest moon, Charon.Some names were suggested by members of the public during the 'Our Pluto' campaign, which was launched as a partnership between the IAU, the New Horizons project and the SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) Institute. ![]()
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