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NASA's New Horizons Data Helps Identify a Possible Source for Pluto's Moon Charon's Red Cap
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...
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Atmospheric Pressure On Pluto's Surface 80,000 Times Less Than Earth: Study
The study was carried out by an international team of scientists, and included members from Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences.
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Pluto's Icy Heart Regulates Its Atmospheric Circulation: Study
Pluto's heart-shaped structure, named Tombaugh Regio, quickly became famous after NASA's New Horizons mission captured footage of the dwarf planet in 2015 and revealed it is not the barren world scientists thought it was.
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'Surprising' Methane Dunes Found on Pluto
Pluto is covered with surprising dunes made of methane ice, which have formed relatively recently despite the frigid dwarf planet's very thin atmosphere, international researchers said Thursday.
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Pluto 'Paints' Its Largest Moon Red: NASA
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.
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NASA Probe Captures Pluto In Twilight
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has beamed back a stunning image of Pluto, showing sunlight filtering through and illuminating the icy dwarf planet's complex atmospheric haze layers.
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Giant 'Bite Mark' Appears on Pluto's Surface
The methane ice-rich surface on Pluto may be sublimating away into the atmosphere, exposing a layer of water-ice underneath.
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NASA Probe Captures Pluto's Blue Atmosphere In Infrared
NASA has released an image capturing the first look at Pluto's blue atmosphere in infrared wavelengths which was taken by its New Horizons spacecraft.
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Nasa's New Horizons Probe Captures Pluto's Blue Atmosphere in Infrared
In the image, sunlight is coming from above and behind Pluto while New Horizons was about 180,000 kilometres away.
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First New Horizons Paper Reveals 'Fascinating' Pluto
Pluto is a "fascinating" world with a diverse range of landforms such as smooth plains, ice mountains and bladelike ridges, according to the first research paper from a flyby of the dwarf planet in July.
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NASA Spacecraft Shows Pluto Wrapped in Haze, Ice Flows
A stunning silhouette of Pluto taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft after it shot past the icy orb last week show an extensive layer of atmospheric haze, while close-up pictures of the ground reveal flows of nitrogen ice, scientists said on Friday.
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NASA's New Horizons Data Helps Identify a Possible Source for Pluto's Moon Charon's Red Cap
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...
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Atmospheric Pressure On Pluto's Surface 80,000 Times Less Than Earth: Study
The study was carried out by an international team of scientists, and included members from Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences.
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Pluto's Icy Heart Regulates Its Atmospheric Circulation: Study
Pluto's heart-shaped structure, named Tombaugh Regio, quickly became famous after NASA's New Horizons mission captured footage of the dwarf planet in 2015 and revealed it is not the barren world scientists thought it was.
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'Surprising' Methane Dunes Found on Pluto
Pluto is covered with surprising dunes made of methane ice, which have formed relatively recently despite the frigid dwarf planet's very thin atmosphere, international researchers said Thursday.
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Pluto 'Paints' Its Largest Moon Red: NASA
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.
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NASA Probe Captures Pluto In Twilight
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has beamed back a stunning image of Pluto, showing sunlight filtering through and illuminating the icy dwarf planet's complex atmospheric haze layers.
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Giant 'Bite Mark' Appears on Pluto's Surface
The methane ice-rich surface on Pluto may be sublimating away into the atmosphere, exposing a layer of water-ice underneath.
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NASA Probe Captures Pluto's Blue Atmosphere In Infrared
NASA has released an image capturing the first look at Pluto's blue atmosphere in infrared wavelengths which was taken by its New Horizons spacecraft.
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Nasa's New Horizons Probe Captures Pluto's Blue Atmosphere in Infrared
In the image, sunlight is coming from above and behind Pluto while New Horizons was about 180,000 kilometres away.
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First New Horizons Paper Reveals 'Fascinating' Pluto
Pluto is a "fascinating" world with a diverse range of landforms such as smooth plains, ice mountains and bladelike ridges, according to the first research paper from a flyby of the dwarf planet in July.
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NASA Spacecraft Shows Pluto Wrapped in Haze, Ice Flows
A stunning silhouette of Pluto taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft after it shot past the icy orb last week show an extensive layer of atmospheric haze, while close-up pictures of the ground reveal flows of nitrogen ice, scientists said on Friday.
