--- title: Pluto's Frozen Canyons Surround the North Pole description: An image of Pluto released by NASA on Thursday reveals long frozen canyons with winding valleys close to the dwarf planet's north pole canonical: https://time.com/4238208/frozen-canyons-pluto-north-pole/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-26T00:10:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T15:24:01.303Z article:section: Science og:title: See the Frozen Canyons of Pluto’s North Pole og:description: The largest canyon is 45 miles wide og:url: https://time.com/4238208/frozen-canyons-pluto-north-pole/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf04be0c493afd82e/69887f338e06012cab464c7a/nh-northpolerotatedcontrast.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3477 og:image:height: 1956 og:image:alt: nh-northpolerotatedcontrast og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See the Frozen Canyons of Pluto’s North Pole twitter:description: The largest canyon is 45 miles wide twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf04be0c493afd82e/69887f338e06012cab464c7a/nh-northpolerotatedcontrast.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See the Frozen Canyons of Pluto’s North Pole > Sponsored content. 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The widest canyon pictured is 45 miles wide, while others are about 6 miles wide. The image reveals terrain with deep scarring and irregular pits that might be indicative of ground collapse caused by melting ice. The terrain appears yellow in some places at higher elevations and bluish gray in places at lower elevations. The image was captured by [NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft](http://time.com/4018747/new-horizons-flyby/) on July 14, 2015 approximately 21,100 miles away from Pluto. **Read more:** [Photographing Pluto: This Is How _New Horizons_ Works](http://time.com/3944157/new-horizons-pluto/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4238208/frozen-canyons-pluto-north-pole/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4238208/frozen-canyons-pluto-north-pole/"},"headline":"See the Frozen Canyons of Pluto’s North Pole","datePublished":"2016-02-26T00:10:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:24:01.303Z","description":"The largest canyon is 45 miles wide","url":"https://time.com/4238208/frozen-canyons-pluto-north-pole/","keywords":["Space"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf04be0c493afd82e/69887f338e06012cab464c7a/nh-northpolerotatedcontrast.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf04be0c493afd82e/69887f338e06012cab464c7a/nh-northpolerotatedcontrast.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"nh-northpolerotatedcontrast","caption":"","creditText":"NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4238208/frozen-canyons-pluto-north-pole/","name":"See the Frozen Canyons of Pluto’s North Pole"}}]}] ```