A close-up view of the rugged, icy mountains and flat ice plains on Pluto is seen in an image from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft
taken July 14, 2015 and released September 17, 2015. REUTERS/NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/Handout via Reuters
Posted on 11/10/2015 4:41:49 PM PST by NormsRevenge
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered what appear to be ice-spewing volcanoes on the surface of Pluto, raising questions about how the tiny, distant world has been so geologically active, according to research presented on Monday.
The findings, released at an American Astronomical Society meeting in National Harbor, Maryland, paint a far more complicated picture of Pluto and its moons than scientists imagined.
"The Pluto system is baffling us," planetary scientist Alan Stern, with the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, told reporters during a webcast news conference.
Stern heads the team working on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which made an unprecedented pass by Pluto on July 14.
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A close-up view of the rugged, icy mountains and flat ice plains on Pluto is seen in an image from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft
taken July 14, 2015 and released September 17, 2015. REUTERS/NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/Handout via Reuters
So, there are IceHoles on other planets besides earth and Uranus?
I wasn’t fast enough with “in before Uranus”
Not my Mianus, which is in Connecticut
It seems to me that “ice upheavals” would be more descriptive of what we are looking at.
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