Pluto has snow-capped mountains covered in methane frost, and although they look similar to snowy mountain chains on Earth, these mountains gather snow in a way entirely unlike anywhere else in ...

Pluto is the only place other than Earth in our solar system that's known to have white-peaked mountains, but these white caps aren't made of snow. Instead, they're made of methane frost.

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He described the mountains as "quite spectacular, these are up to 11,000 feet high, there may be higher ones elsewhere." "Now we know the surface of Pluto is covered in a lot of nitrogen ice ...

Pluto’s mountains are topped with frozen methane, not water ice. By Mike Wehner. Published Oct 13th, ... Pluto’s surface temperature is nearly 400 degrees Fahrenheit below zero.

New close-up images of a region near Pluto’s equator reveal a giant surprise—a range of youthful mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet above the surface of the icy body.

Gazing at Pluto's Cthulhu mountain range from space, you could mistake it for the Alps, Europe's picturesque spine of rock dusted with snow. When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft zipped past the ...

Pluto has snow-capped mountains covered in methane frost, and although they look similar to snowy mountain chains on Earth, these mountains gather snow in a way entirely unlike anywhere else in ...

Pluto has snow-capped mountains covered in methane frost, and although they look similar to snowy mountain chains on Earth, these mountains gather snow in a way entirely unlike anywhere else in ...

Pluto's snow-capped mountains look like they belong on Earth, but researchers have discovered that the snowy tops of these features are actually made of methane frost.