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NASA’s New Horizons Finds Evidence of Recent Liquid on Pluto’s Surface Data gathered by NASA during the 2015 New…

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NASA’s New Horizons Finds Evidence of Recent Liquid on Pluto’s Surface Data gathered by NASA during the 2015 New Horizons flyby indicates that liquid nitrogen may be surfacing through fractures within the Sputnik Planitia glacier on Pluto. Researchers analyzing these images observed dark linear and diffuse patterns along convection cells that bear a strong resemblance to glacial features on Earth…

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