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03-04-2016, 03:37 AM
New Horizons spots Pluto's s**w-capped mountains
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A string of s**wcapped, frosty mountains dot a dark part of Pluto's landscape.
Scientists using photos taken by the New Horizons (http://mashable.com/2015/07/11/new-horizons-pluto-matters/) spacecraft have just found the mountains in*Cthulhu Regio, a darkly colored part of the dwarf planet's surface that is slightly bigger than Alaska, according to NASA.
A mountain range found in the region is about 260 miles long, and the tops of the mountains appear to be capped with what could be methane ice condensed from Pluto's atmosphere, NASA added.
SEE ALSO: Take in the beauty of Pluto's frozen **rth pole canyons (http://mashable.com/2016/02/25/pluto-frozen-canyon-photos/)
"That this material coats only the upper slopes of the peaks suggests methane ice may act like water in Earth's atmosphere, condensing as frost at high altitude," John Stansberry, a New Horizons scientist, said in a statement (http://www.nasa.gov/feature/methane-s**w-on-pluto-s-peaks). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/03/pluto-ice-mountains-methane-s**w/)
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A string of s**wcapped, frosty mountains dot a dark part of Pluto's landscape.
Scientists using photos taken by the New Horizons (http://mashable.com/2015/07/11/new-horizons-pluto-matters/) spacecraft have just found the mountains in*Cthulhu Regio, a darkly colored part of the dwarf planet's surface that is slightly bigger than Alaska, according to NASA.
A mountain range found in the region is about 260 miles long, and the tops of the mountains appear to be capped with what could be methane ice condensed from Pluto's atmosphere, NASA added.
SEE ALSO: Take in the beauty of Pluto's frozen **rth pole canyons (http://mashable.com/2016/02/25/pluto-frozen-canyon-photos/)
"That this material coats only the upper slopes of the peaks suggests methane ice may act like water in Earth's atmosphere, condensing as frost at high altitude," John Stansberry, a New Horizons scientist, said in a statement (http://www.nasa.gov/feature/methane-s**w-on-pluto-s-peaks). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/03/pluto-ice-mountains-methane-s**w/)
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