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Pluto Revealed as a Dynamic World of Ice Flows and Blue Haze

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Source: Space Daily
Pluto Revealed as a Dynamic World of Ice Flows and Blue Haze
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New Horizons’ 2015 Pluto flyby uncovered a surprisingly young, active surface with smooth nitrogen-ice plains, evidence of ice flow, possible cryovolcanoes, and a layered blue atmospheric haze, reshaping Pluto from a cold, ancient relic into a small world still geologically alive.

Topics:science#cryovolcanism#new-horizons#nitrogen-ice#pluto#space#sputnik-planitia
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Scientists expected Pluto to be a frozen, ancient world scarred by billions of years of impacts. But when New Horizons finally arrived in 2015, it found something stranger: smooth young plains with almost no craters, signs of flowing nitrogen ice, possible ice vol  Space Daily

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