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Pluto and Charon: New Horizons’ Dynamic Duo

By Tricia Talbert | NASA on Jul 10, 2015   Featured, Science/Education  

Pluto and Charon: New Horizons’ Dynamic Duo

They’re a fascinating pair: Two icy worlds, spinning around their common center of gravity like a pair of figure skaters clasping hands. Scientists believe they were shaped by a cosmic collision billions of years ago, and yet, in many ways, they seem more like strangers than siblings. A high-contrast array of bright and dark features […]

Cracks in Pluto’s Moon Could Indicate it Once Had an Underground Ocean

By Bill Steigerwald | Goddard Space Flight Center on Jun 13, 2014   Science/Education  

  If the icy surface of Pluto’s giant moon Charon is cracked, analysis of the fractures could reveal if its interior was warm, perhaps warm enough to have maintained a subterranean ocean of liquid water, according to a new NASA-funded study. Pluto is an extremely distant world, orbiting the sun more than 29 times farther […]

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