Challenger Colles is a range of hills on Pluto in Sputnik Planitia, discovered by

New Horizons ''New Horizons'' is an Interplanetary spaceflight, interplanetary space probe that was launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program. Engineered by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Southwest Research ...

in July 2015. It is named in honor of the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'', which was destroyed with all seven crew lost on January 28, 1986. The name ''Challenger Colles'' became official on May 27, 2022.

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{{Pluto Extraterrestrial hills Geography of Pluto Surface features of Pluto