When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto, Earth watched and celebrated. “The target didn’t disappoint,” says Principal Investigator S. Alan Stern. “It’s absolutely stunning.” And even though ...
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Color images of Pluto released by NASA this year show the dwarf planet has a reddish brown surface. But an even newer photo shows that despite those colors, Pluto's atmosphere has a blue haze. The ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the last bit of data from its 2015 flyby of Pluto. The picture — one of a sequence of shots of Pluto and its big moon, Charon — ...
Pluto may have two ice volcanoes that spew water ice, nitrogen, ammonia, and methane onto the dwarf planet’s surface, NASA announced today. The potential volcanoes were spied near Pluto’s south pole, ...
Pluto is not dead. That's the bottom line, according to new research published in the journal Science. The dwarf planet is home to mountains, glaciers and a hazy atmosphere that stretches for a ...
After the spacecraft flew by Pluto, it took a look backward. From that vantage point, sunlight illuminated the dwarf planet’s hazy, surprisingly tall atmosphere. “The huge vertical extent of the haze, ...
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