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CNET is reporting Beautiful new photos of Pluto show terrain, atmosphere.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has long since passed by Pluto, and is currently 4.96 billion kilometers (4.59 light hours) from Earth. But things are not over with yet. It is still sending back data and images from its flyby. On Earth we have the hydrological cycle in Greenland and the South Pole where water evaporates, falls as snow, builds up glaciers, which then flow out to restart the cycle. It appears that something very similar is happening on Pluto, but because of the incredibly frigid temperatures, this process is occurring with frozen Nitrogen.
NASA has stunning pictures and more complete descriptions.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by hemocyanin on Saturday September 19 2015, @06:37PM
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