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What processes during the formation of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially led to it having cryovolcanism, and even an ...
What did NASA’s New Horizons find when it reached Pluto? The results shocked astronomers: Pluto wasn’t a lifeless rock - it was geologically active, covered in glaciers, and had a hidden underground ...
Some scientists also believe there is a liquid ocean beneath Pluto's ice shell that is estimated to be 249 miles thick. But they thought it formed later in Pluto's history as radioactive elements ...
Pluto’s surface is a frigid –230° Celsius and even the base of Sputnik Planitia is probably far below water’s freezing point. “What if Pluto didn’t have an ocean at all?” Denton says.
But new research on the heart suggests there might not be an ocean lurking within Pluto after all. If so, this discovery would arguably add to Pluto's list of 21st century embarrassments. Its ...
And yet Pluto’s youthful cryovolcanic terrain bolsters the case for its own subterranean seas, while adding evidence to two theories: that ocean worlds are commonplace in the cosmos, and that ...
Yet Pluto has some geological oddities — in particular, a large number of cracks discovered on the far side — that add support to the existence of a hidden ocean, and even shed light on how it ...
If Pluto formed in less than 30,000 years, it would have "started out hot," which means the liquid ocean would have developed early in the celestial object's existence.
This would maintain Pluto’s internal ocean in a liquid state. But for that to have happened, Bierson says, the world must have formed in some 30,000 years — if not less.
Today, the dwarf planet Pluto orbits the sun from the edge of our solar system and its surface temperature is an inhospitable negative 378 to negative 396 degrees Fahrenheit. But ...