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NASA's New Horizons Shows Pluto's Moon Charon Is a Strange, New World

Posted by samzenpus on from the pretty-pictures dept.

MarkWhittington writes: NASA's New Horizons has returned a stunning series of images of Pluto, the dwarf planet that resides on the edge of the solar system, revealing a strange new world of ice mountains and glaciers of frozen nitrogen. NASA also released images of Pluto's largest moon Charon. Scientists expected a plain ball of rock pockmarked with craters, but what they saw was anything but plain and monotonous.

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  1. Can we get back by rossdee · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    to calling Pluto a planet