Okay, the reason it looked soooo familiar was that it was from last month. That's what happens when your fearless listmeister tries this on the cusp of sleep.
Weird that the last month's topic didn't turn up in my search of FR.
drum roll please...and now, the real APoD for November 14, 2015...
Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Wright Mons on Pluto
NASA ^ | November 14, 2015 | (see photo credit)
Posted on 11/14/2015 2:12 PM EST by SunkenCiv
Explanation: Long shadows are cast by a low Sun across this rugged looking terrain. Captured by New Horizons, the scene is found just south of the southern tip Sputnik Planum, the informally named smooth, bright heart region of Pluto. Centered is a feature provisionally known as Wright Mons, a broad, tall mountain, about 150 kilometers across and 4 kilometers high, with a 56 kilometer wide, deep summit depression. Of course, broad mountains with central craters are found elsewhere in the Solar System, like Mauna Loa on planet Earth and Olympus Mons on Mars. In fact, New Horizons scientists announced the striking similarity of Pluto's Wright Mons, and nearby Piccard Mons, to large shield volcanoes strongly suggests the two could be giant cryovolcanoes that once erupted molten ice from the interior of the cold, distant world.
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[Image Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ./APL, Southwest Research Institutet]