US EditionAncient Pluto May Have Had Lakes and Rivers of Nitrogen
PLUTO, KUIPER BELT, JUL 11 – New Horizons provided Pluto’s first close-up images and revealed active geology and atmosphere while facing possible shutdown under proposed NASA budget cuts, scientists say.
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Ancient Pluto may have had lakes and rivers of nitrogen
The New Horizons probe revealed the surface features of Pluto in rich detail when it reached the dwarf planet in July 2015. Some of the features look like snapshots of rivers and lakes that are locked firmly in place by Pluto's frigid temperatures. But now scientists studying the data coming back from New Horizons think that those frozen lakes and rivers could once have been liquid nitrogen.
Discovered almost a century ago, the dwarf planet Pluto was given a real portrait only in July 2015.The New Horizons probe took the only and unique observations of quality of the one that was for a long time the ninth planet of the Solar System, and that remains today mysterious and fascinatingAfter nine years of travel and nearly 5 million kilometres travelled, the New Horizons probe, launched in 2006, took what is still one of the most famous …
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