Pluto

Is there an ocean under Pluto’s surface? A new study suggests that there may indeed be one beneath the dwarf planet’s surface.

See a brief tour of the planet’s hummocky cratered uplands, rocky terrains, and cellular nitrogen ice plains, among other features.

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When the New Horizons spacecraft made its flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015, there was worldwide celebration that we’d finally gotten our first detailed look at this completely new type of planet in the outer reaches of our solar system. But for those of us on the New Horizons science team, that day and those first images were only the beginning.

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Pluto just never ceases to fascinate. NASA scientists recently discovered the dwarf planet is home to hills that float and move about.

New data gathered from the New Horizons spacecraft suggests that Pluto has a far more abundant reserve of water ice than previously believed.

In some of the photos, it appears that Pluto might be home to cryovolcanoes, better known as ice volcanoes, which spew up water and ammonia instead of lava.

In July, the New Horizons became the first spacecraft to fly by Pluto, snapping photos of the planet along the way. Processing pictures taken in outer space is a complex task, and NASA is still releasing new ones from the journey.

NASA’s New Horizons space probe has sent back the first set of high-resolution images of Pluto ever seen.

The New Horizons space probe voyage to Pluto has helped to create new interest in learning about our solar system. And it has refocused attention on the issue of Pluto’s demotion from planetary status. I hope to convince you, in this article, that this unfortunate decision should be reversed.

Since the New Horizons probe flew through the Pluto system on July 14, most of the attention has been on Pluto itself.

It took almost a decade for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft to navigate its way across the solar system to start taking and transmitting dramatic closeup photos of the dwarf planet Pluto.

NASA scientists are intrigued about a strange feature on Pluto’s largest moon Charon that one member has described as “a large mountain sitting in a moat.”

Vast frozen plains exist next door to Pluto’s big, rugged mountains sculpted of ice, scientists said Friday, three days after humanity’s first-ever flyby of the dwarf planet.

Scientists have released the first up-close images ever of Pluto and its big moon Charon. And they say they’re amazed.

It doesn’t sound much of a reward for all the effort of designing and building the spacecraft—but for planetary scientists, the data coming back from the mission is pure gold.