Pluto
Close-up images reveal youthful water-ice mountains rising about 3.5 kilometres above Pluto's surface.
Historical biography archive · Updated 2026-11-03
Jeff Moore Biography and Timeline
Follow Jeff Moore through 10 dated historical records for United States of America.
Jeff Moore, historical timeline
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
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2015
Sputnik Planitia
Images reveal a vast craterless plain in Pluto's heart-shaped region, indicating surprisingly young terrain.
Sputnik Planitia
The newly revealed icy plain in Pluto's heart is informally named Sputnik Planum, later standardized as Sputnik Planitia.
Pluto
Enhanced-color imagery reveals the unusual ridged and scaly terrain of Tartarus Dorsa, nicknamed Pluto's snakeskin terrain.
Pluto
High-resolution New Horizons images reveal rugged mountains, faulted blocks and detailed textures along the edge of Sputnik Planitia.
Pluto
Topographic analysis identifies Wright Mons and Piccard Mons as possible large cryovolcanoes formed by icy volcanic activity.
Pluto
Highest-resolution images show erosion and faulting sculpting rugged badlands and a major canyon system in Pluto's northern terrain.
Pluto
Close-up imagery reveals aligned pits in Pluto's nitrogen-rich ice, probably formed through fracturing and volatile-ice loss.
2018
Pluto
Analysis of New Horizons imagery confirms dune fields near Sputnik Planitia, showing that Pluto's thin atmosphere can mobilize surface particles.
Pluto
Pluto's dunes are interpreted as deposits of sand-sized methane-ice grains shaped by winds near the margins of Sputnik Planitia.
Records, sources and methodology
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