Dark streaks along Pluto’s giant nitrogen glacier may mark places where liquid nitrogen recently reached and flowed across the surface. Computer models suggest nitrogen could melt beneath the ...
More than a decade after a spacecraft raced past Pluto, its images are still yielding surprises, and the latest points to ...
New analysis of decade-old images from NASA's 2015 New Horizons encounter with Pluto has turned up evidence of recent liquid ...
A new analysis of New Horizon images of the Sputnik Planitia, a section of Pluto’s massive, heart-shaped glacier, suggests that liquid nitrogen once existed on the dwarf planet’s surface. The study, ...
Scientists found evidence of liquid nitrogen flow beneath Pluto's Sputnik Planitia. This flow may have occurred after rising through cracks in the glacier. Computer models show nitrogen melting under ...