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Pluto — a Complex and Changing World

Posted by timothy on from the can-imagine-quite-a-bit dept.

astroengine writes "After 4 years of processing the highest resolution photographs the Hubble Space Telescope could muster, we now have the highest resolution view of Pluto's surface ever produced. Most excitingly, these new observations show an active world with seasonal changes altering the dwarf planet's surface. It turns out that this far-flung world has more in common with Earth than we would have ever imagined."

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  1. Re:i'll grant you pluto is a planet by lawpoop · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, Pluto does seem to have the biggest satellite. If we wanted to maintain tradition and keep Pluto a planet, this might just be the fudge factor we need.

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