The first close-up images of Pluto from New Horizons were two-dimensional, but that isn't the only glimpse we can get from the dwarf planet since NASA released a simulated video of the space probe's flyover revealing the details of what comprises Pluto's surface and atmosphere.
Those 11,000 feet tall mountain ranges dubbed "Norgay Montes" are named after one of the first two humans to reach the summit of Mount Everest,Tenzing Norgay. The mountains are probably made of ice from frozen nitrogen and methane.
The video also shows the vast craterless plains located next to the mountains, called the "Sputnik Planum" suggesting that the planet is geologically young - about 100 million-years-old, La Times reported.
The plain lies within the region straight from the "heart" of Pluto - a big, pale heart-shaped area - which is now dubbed "Tombaugh Regio," named after Pluto's discoverer Clyde Tombaugh.
"We've discovered a vast, craterless plains with some kind of story to tell," said Jeff Moore, a co-investigator on the New Horizons mission, Mashable reported.
"There's obviously mountain-building forces operating on Pluto," Moore added.
New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager, or LORRI, captured the image from a distance of 48,000 miles.
