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Pluto’s Cthulhu Mountains look just like the Alps, but they’re not… – AlKhaleej Today

Pluto’s Cthulhu Mountains look just like the Alps, but they’re not…

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The methane-covered mountains of the Cthulhu region of Pluto. False color images in purple show that methane correlates with snow caps across the region.NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI
When you look at Plutos Cthulhu Mountains from space, you might mistake them for the Alps, Europes picturesque snow-covered rocky ridges. When NASAs New Horizons spaceship In 2015, it passed the dwarf planet and depicted Cthulhu and the regions dazzling, reflective ridge that reaches almost half of Mount Everest. Its cold o…

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