The international Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved themes submitted by NASA's New Horizons team for naming surface features on Pluto and its moons. Pluto was the Roman god of the underworld and the judge of the dead.

According to NASA, the international Astronomical Union (IAU) is internationally recognized authority for naming celestial bodies and their surface features. They have finally made Pluto's spooky status official.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has delivered the first close-up views of Pluto and its moon in 2015. The amazing images are showing a vast nitrogen glacier as well as Ice Mountains, canyons, craters and more. The IAU's action clears the way for the mission team to propose formal names for dozens of surface features.

Crysta Links has stated that the decision will help to formalize many of the informal names given to Pluto's surface feature. The name belongs to Cthulhu Regio and Norgay Montes. Norgay Montes is named for Tenzing Norgay, the first man summit Mount Everest along with Sir Edmund Hillary,

The space agency's New Horizons mission that has launched in January 2006, that conducted a six-month-long reconnaissance flyby study of Pluto in 2015. The New Horizons in 2015 have launched a campaign allowing the public to help the name of Pluto's surface features, reported by NASA.

NASA has now decided that Pluto and its moon will have surface features inspired by the mythology related to each celestial body's name. Pluto will have surface features named after deities associated with the underworld.

The Charon, named after the ferryman of the Underworld's River Styx, will have features associated with voyages and vessels.NASA has reported the moon named Kerberos will have surfaces feature named after fictional and mythological dogs.

However, the naming planets after gods and goddess have long been a celestial tradition. NASA's decision is extremely on-brand for the prince of darkness dwarf planet, but it is admittedly cooler when these deities are hellish and terrifying.

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