Pluto And Its Moons

In its recent post, US space agency NASA shared a picture of planetary besties Charon and Pluto, the two dwarf planet systems.

NASA's New Horizons mission data along with novel laboratory experiments and exospheric modelling has helped scientists to reveal the likely composition of the red cap on Pluto's moon Charon and how it may have formed. The team realistically replicated Charon surface conditions to measure the composition and colour of hydrocarbons produced on Charo...

Combining data obtained from several sources, scientists have managed to unravel the mystery behind the red cap on Pluto's moon Charon and its composition. NASA's interplanetary space probe New Horizons had captured the reddish region on the top of Charon and collected data in 2015.

A new study has explained how sand dunes can provide insight into weather and conditions one might experience while standing on a far-off planetary body. For dunes to exist, planets should pass a pair of “Goldilocks” criteria. The presence of such dunes on Venus, Earth, Mars, Titan, Triton (Neptune’s largest moon) and Pluto have given new hop...

"We've added Pluto, Venus, and several other moons for a total of 12 new worlds for you to explore," Marquardt added.

The reddish polar region on Pluto's largest moon, Charon, is an effect of methane gas escaping from the icy dwarf planet's atmosphere, say scientists who solved the mystery behind the coloured region first spotted by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft last year.

NASA scientists associated with interplanetary space probe New Horizons have revealed the former "astronomer's planet" and its "intriguing system of small moons" in a comprehensive set of papers describing results from last summer's Pluto system flyby.

NASA's New Horizons probe has captured some stunning images of how the day progresses on Pluto and its largest moon Charon.

Kerberos appears to have a double-lobed shape, around 12km in its long dimension and 4.5km in its shortest dimension.

NASA has unveiled stunning mosaics of Pluto and its largest moon Charon, representing the global response to its popular "#PlutoTime" social media campaign.

The probe has been barreling toward the dwarf planet and its primary moon, Charon, since January 2006.

"It just shows the universe is a really complex and wonderful place," said Kenyon in an accompanying commentary in Nature.

Pluto's outer moons are continuously toppled and turned as they battle the joint gravitational forces of their parent planet and its primary moon Charon, a study published on Wednesday showed.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent back its first colour image of the dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon Charon, after more than nine years of travelling through the solar system.

Even as NASA's New Horizons spacecraft gears up to visit Pluto and its giant moon Charon next year, researchers predicted different fracture patterns on the surface of Charon that could point towards underground liquid water - a necessary ingredient for life.

In its recent post, US space agency NASA shared a picture of planetary besties Charon and Pluto, the two dwarf planet systems.

NASA's New Horizons mission data along with novel laboratory experiments and exospheric modelling has helped scientists to reveal the likely composition of the red cap on Pluto's moon Charon and how it may have formed. The team realistically replicated Charon surface conditions to measure the composition and colour of hydrocarbons produced on Charo...

Combining data obtained from several sources, scientists have managed to unravel the mystery behind the red cap on Pluto's moon Charon and its composition. NASA's interplanetary space probe New Horizons had captured the reddish region on the top of Charon and collected data in 2015.

A new study has explained how sand dunes can provide insight into weather and conditions one might experience while standing on a far-off planetary body. For dunes to exist, planets should pass a pair of “Goldilocks” criteria. The presence of such dunes on Venus, Earth, Mars, Titan, Triton (Neptune’s largest moon) and Pluto have given new hop...

"We've added Pluto, Venus, and several other moons for a total of 12 new worlds for you to explore," Marquardt added.

The reddish polar region on Pluto's largest moon, Charon, is an effect of methane gas escaping from the icy dwarf planet's atmosphere, say scientists who solved the mystery behind the coloured region first spotted by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft last year.

NASA scientists associated with interplanetary space probe New Horizons have revealed the former "astronomer's planet" and its "intriguing system of small moons" in a comprehensive set of papers describing results from last summer's Pluto system flyby.

NASA's New Horizons probe has captured some stunning images of how the day progresses on Pluto and its largest moon Charon.

Kerberos appears to have a double-lobed shape, around 12km in its long dimension and 4.5km in its shortest dimension.

NASA has unveiled stunning mosaics of Pluto and its largest moon Charon, representing the global response to its popular "#PlutoTime" social media campaign.

The probe has been barreling toward the dwarf planet and its primary moon, Charon, since January 2006.

"It just shows the universe is a really complex and wonderful place," said Kenyon in an accompanying commentary in Nature.

Pluto's outer moons are continuously toppled and turned as they battle the joint gravitational forces of their parent planet and its primary moon Charon, a study published on Wednesday showed.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent back its first colour image of the dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon Charon, after more than nine years of travelling through the solar system.

Even as NASA's New Horizons spacecraft gears up to visit Pluto and its giant moon Charon next year, researchers predicted different fracture patterns on the surface of Charon that could point towards underground liquid water - a necessary ingredient for life.