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Tiny Pluto Big On Frozen Water Reserves

Posted by timothy on from the let's-take-a-look-at-those-pictures dept.

New submitter rmdingler writes that a new map created by NASA based on the New Horizons flyby of Pluto "shows much more frozen water than scientists initially expected." Using LEISA to photograph from 108,000 kilometers away, much more of the recently demoted planet's frozen surface liquid is water, rather than methane, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen as originally posited.

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  1. frozen water is not a liquid by BarbaraHudson · · Score: 1, Insightful

    From the summary:

    planet's frozen surface liquid is water, rather than methane, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen as originally posited.

    Dump the word liquid. It's both stupid and wrong.

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