Behold, the First Closeup of Pluto

The New Horizons spacecraft began revealing its treats today, providing scientists with the first closeups of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon. The dwarf planet has a mountain range about 11,000 feet high, roughly the size of the Rockies, reports AP. Scientists were surprised to see no impact craters, suggesting the surface is "quite young, no more than 100 million years old," reports the New York Times. As for Charon, it has visible trenches and canyons, along with a dark patch on its north pole nicknamed Mordor, notes the Times. It will take more than a year for scientists to retrieve all the data from the New Horizons spacecraft. (More Pluto stories.)