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Supervolcano Discovered On Pluto, Could Be Evidence Of Subsurface Ocean
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has captured images of Pluto, revealing a 44-kilometer-wide crater that displays indications of recent volcanic activity.
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NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Captures ''Heart-Shaped'' Glacier On Pluto's Surface
NASA shared a stunning image on Instagram taken by its New Horizons spacecraft showing a heart-shaped glacier on Pluto's surface.
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NASA Shares Stunning Image Of Pluto That Shows Its ''True Colours''
Pluto was once considered the ninth planet in the solar system, however, it was demoted in 2006 and reclassified as a dwarf planet.
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NASA’s New Horizons Identifies Towering Ice Volcanoes on Pluto
A batch of dome-shaped ice volcanoes that look unlike anything else known in our solar system and may still be active have been identified on Pluto using data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, showing that this remote frigid world is more dynamic than previously known.
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Towering Ice Volcanoes Identified On Surprisingly Vibrant Pluto
A batch of dome-shaped ice volcanoes that look unlike anything else known in our solar system and may still be active have been identified on Pluto using data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft
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NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft to Reach Ultima Thule on New Year's Day
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will zip past the scrawny, icy object nicknamed Ultima Thule (TOO-lee) soon after the stroke of midnight.
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NASA Space Probe Detects An 'Icy' Anomaly. Billion Kilometres Past Pluto
Just days ahead of its New Year's 2019 close encounter, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has detected an anomaly related to its next flyby target -- an icy world a billion kilometres past Pluto and more than 6.5 billion km from Earth.
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Pluto's True Nature - Heart-Shaped Icecap, Spits Out X-Rays And More
When the New Horizons spacecraft arrived at Pluto in 2015, the probe revealed the dwarf planet's true nature: Pluto is a frozen lump, sure, but it is an odd and interesting lump. Pluto has a heart-shaped icecap that, in theory, could hide an ocean. For no obvious reason, Pluto spits out X-rays. And when New Horizons took Pluto's temperature, the dw...
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NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Set to Meet Next Flyby Target - a Kuiper Belt Object
It is heading towards its next target - 2014 MU69 - which is a Kuiper Belt object (KBO) and the probe will fly past it on January 1, 2019.
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New NASA Video Shows 'Landing' on Pluto
The video was created using over 100 images taken by the New Horizons spacecraft over six weeks of approach and close flyby in 2015.
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New Horizons' Last Bit Of Pluto Data Reaches Earth
It took more than a year but the last bits of science data from New Horizons' Pluto flyby - stored on the spacecraft's digital recorders since July 2015 - arrived safely on Earth this week, NASA said.
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Origin Of Pluto's Huge 'Icy Heart' Found
Scientists have unveiled the origin of the large heart-shaped nitrogen glacier on Pluto spotted by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its historic flyby of the icy-dwarf planet last year.
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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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After Pluto, New Horizons Set to Meet Deeper Space Object
The spacecraft's planned rendezvous with an ancient object considered one of the early building blocks of the solar system is January 1, 2019.
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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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Supervolcano Discovered On Pluto, Could Be Evidence Of Subsurface Ocean
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has captured images of Pluto, revealing a 44-kilometer-wide crater that displays indications of recent volcanic activity.
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NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Captures ''Heart-Shaped'' Glacier On Pluto's Surface
NASA shared a stunning image on Instagram taken by its New Horizons spacecraft showing a heart-shaped glacier on Pluto's surface.
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NASA Shares Stunning Image Of Pluto That Shows Its ''True Colours''
Pluto was once considered the ninth planet in the solar system, however, it was demoted in 2006 and reclassified as a dwarf planet.
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NASA’s New Horizons Identifies Towering Ice Volcanoes on Pluto
A batch of dome-shaped ice volcanoes that look unlike anything else known in our solar system and may still be active have been identified on Pluto using data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, showing that this remote frigid world is more dynamic than previously known.
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Towering Ice Volcanoes Identified On Surprisingly Vibrant Pluto
A batch of dome-shaped ice volcanoes that look unlike anything else known in our solar system and may still be active have been identified on Pluto using data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft
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NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft to Reach Ultima Thule on New Year's Day
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will zip past the scrawny, icy object nicknamed Ultima Thule (TOO-lee) soon after the stroke of midnight.
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NASA Space Probe Detects An 'Icy' Anomaly. Billion Kilometres Past Pluto
Just days ahead of its New Year's 2019 close encounter, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has detected an anomaly related to its next flyby target -- an icy world a billion kilometres past Pluto and more than 6.5 billion km from Earth.
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Pluto's True Nature - Heart-Shaped Icecap, Spits Out X-Rays And More
When the New Horizons spacecraft arrived at Pluto in 2015, the probe revealed the dwarf planet's true nature: Pluto is a frozen lump, sure, but it is an odd and interesting lump. Pluto has a heart-shaped icecap that, in theory, could hide an ocean. For no obvious reason, Pluto spits out X-rays. And when New Horizons took Pluto's temperature, the dw...
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NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Set to Meet Next Flyby Target - a Kuiper Belt Object
It is heading towards its next target - 2014 MU69 - which is a Kuiper Belt object (KBO) and the probe will fly past it on January 1, 2019.
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New NASA Video Shows 'Landing' on Pluto
The video was created using over 100 images taken by the New Horizons spacecraft over six weeks of approach and close flyby in 2015.
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New Horizons' Last Bit Of Pluto Data Reaches Earth
It took more than a year but the last bits of science data from New Horizons' Pluto flyby - stored on the spacecraft's digital recorders since July 2015 - arrived safely on Earth this week, NASA said.
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Origin Of Pluto's Huge 'Icy Heart' Found
Scientists have unveiled the origin of the large heart-shaped nitrogen glacier on Pluto spotted by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its historic flyby of the icy-dwarf planet last year.
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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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After Pluto, New Horizons Set to Meet Deeper Space Object
The spacecraft's planned rendezvous with an ancient object considered one of the early building blocks of the solar system is January 1, 2019.
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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.
