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Should We Send Humans to Pluto?
Universe Today has examined the potential for sending humans to Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, the planet Venus, and Saturn’s largest…
Freezing Ocean Might Not Be Responsible for Cryovolcanic Flows on Pluto’s Moon, Charon
In a recent study scheduled to be published in the journal Icarus in March 2023, a team of researchers led…
Will Pluto finally answer, ‘Are we alone?’
We previously examined how Neptune’s largest moon, Triton, could answer the longstanding question: Are we alone? With its nitrogen geysers…
Charon’s Red Cap at its North Pole? We Might Have an Answer
Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, started off as a beautiful, smooth red grape until someone came along, mostly peeled it, tried…
NASA Approves New Horizons Extended KBO Mission, Keeps Dawn at Ceres
In an ‘Independence Day’ gift to a slew of US planetary research scientists, NASA has granted approval to nine ongoing…
New Horizons Snaps Amazing 3-D View of Pluto’s Mysterious ‘Bladed’ Terrain
It’s time to whip out your 3-D glasses to enjoy and scrutinize the remarkable detail of spectacular terrain revealed in…
“X” Marks the Spot of Convective Churning on Hot Pluto
“X” marks the spot that’s illustrative of “convective churning” resulting from subsurface planetary heating, as seen in a fascinating new…
Possible Ice Volcanoes Discovered on Pluto
Ice Volcanoes on Pluto? The informally named feature Wright Mons, located south of Sputnik Planum on Pluto, is an unusual…
Astonishing ‘Snakeskin’ Textured Mountains Discovered on Pluto
The more we learn about Pluto, the weirder and weirder it gets. The newest batch of high resolution Plutonian images…
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Flowing Ice, Exotic Mountains and Backlit Haze Highlight Pluto as Never Seen Before
Spectacular imagery of huge regions of flowing ice, monumental mountain ranges and a breathtakingly backlit atmospheric haze showing Pluto as…