I originally asked the OP to summarise the link before the thread would be opened but since I see it's been opened by another Mod I might as well quote the key bits of the article in the OP to get the discussion started:
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In addition to Pluto and its many moons, New Horizons will explore some of the rest of the Kuiper Belt... ... [and] if New Horizons is still up and running in the year 2038, New Horizons will be just 100 or so AU (astronomical units) from the sun, and might be able to send data to help us better understand the sun's outer heliosphere.
Considering that this
◊, is the best image we have of Pluto; yeah it's going to be really cool to get a decent look at it.
Before spotting all the moons, the probe also got some long-range footage of Pluto/Charon
. For the most part, it's not even as detailed as what we were able to infer from the Hubble photos ... but it shows something that looks a lot like polar ice caps!
New pictures have been made public
. The extent of those ice caps seem to vary by latitude, plus Pluto now seems to have a complex surface geology.
It may not be ice caps. See, the timing of New Horizons was to get to Pluto before its atmosphere freezes and covers the surface, obscuring the terrain.
edited 30th May '15 9:54:49 AM by AnotherGuy
Fascinating, but it makes sense that there'd be orbital weirdness. Fact is, Pluto isn't so much a planet (or dwarf planet) as Pluto/Charon is a two-planet system. For example, Charon's so big w/r/t to Pluto that it doesn't actually orbit Pluto—rather, both bodies orbit a central point (barycenter) in space between the two of them. Stands to reason that the actual satellites would behave oddly.
Really hoping there's nothing to the Yuggoth hypothesis. Question: if you're the New Horizons team, and your 7/14 photos reveal terraced, cyclopean cityscapes of nitid black stone, do you release the shots and freak out humanity, or do you announce "Whoopsie, the darned probe malfunctioned at the last sec!"

FINALLY.
I am rather bummed that the Pluto Kuiper Express was cancelled...
edited 16th Jan '15 8:35:49 PM by SantosLHalper