Pluto has landslides

New Horizons data reveal the dwarf planet’s first confirmed landslides

An image of Pluto showing the iconic heart-shaped nitrogen glacier that covers much of its surface.

Newly discovered landslides on Pluto (shown in a 2015 photo from the New Horizons spacecraft) are clustered around the edges of Sputnik Planitia, the plain that looks smooth and light brown near the center of the image.

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Southwest Research Institute, NASA

Terrestrial planets experience landslides in spades, and so do some moons, asteroids and comets.