The finding of these features indicates that Pluto is more active or geologically alive, said Kelsey Singer, lead author of the study published in the journal Nature and a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado. The prospect of snow here is astonishing.
Significantly, the size of the planet Pluto is smaller than the Earth’s moon. Its diameter is about 1,400 miles (2,380 km). It orbits the Sun at a distance of about 3.6 billion miles (5.8 billion kilometers), which is about 40 times more distant than Earth’s orbit. The surface of the planet Pluto has plains as well as mountains.
Scientists analyzed images and data from the New Horizons spacecraft in 2015. After this this information has come to the fore. Alan Stern, principal advisor to New Horizons and co-author of the study, said the study not only found extensive evidence of cryovolcanism, but also showed that it has been around for a long time.
The researchers analyzed the southwest region of Sputnik Planitia. It turns out that Pluto’s basin is filled with nitrogen ice. Like Earth and the other planets in our solar system, Pluto formed about 4.5 billion years ago. Although scientists say that these cryovolcanoes formed only a few million years ago. He says that probably the process of manufacturing cryovolcano is still going on.
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