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03-22-2016, 10:39 PM
Pluto's surface may once have harbored lakes of liquid nitrogen
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Before NASA's New Horizons probe flew past Pluto in July 2015, some scientists speculated that it would probably see an icy, cratered ball on the outskirts of the solar system.*
How wrong they were.*
**t only is Pluto a dynamic world with icy plains, huge ice mountains (http://mashable.com/2015/07/21/nasa-more-ice-mountains-pluto/) and a hazy atmosphere, it also may have once had liquid nitrogen on its surface, according to new models developed by the New Horizons team.
SEE ALSO: We are finally starting to understand Pluto's place in the solar system (http://mashable.com/2016/03/17/pluto-studies-nasa-new-horizons/)
In the most extreme circumstances of this simple climate model, which was developed using data from New Horizons, "the pressure and temperature are high e**ugh that liquids may have existed on the surface of Pluto, liquid nitrogen, in the past,"*New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern said during a press conference Monday. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/22/pluto-liquid-nitrogen-lakes/)
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Before NASA's New Horizons probe flew past Pluto in July 2015, some scientists speculated that it would probably see an icy, cratered ball on the outskirts of the solar system.*
How wrong they were.*
**t only is Pluto a dynamic world with icy plains, huge ice mountains (http://mashable.com/2015/07/21/nasa-more-ice-mountains-pluto/) and a hazy atmosphere, it also may have once had liquid nitrogen on its surface, according to new models developed by the New Horizons team.
SEE ALSO: We are finally starting to understand Pluto's place in the solar system (http://mashable.com/2016/03/17/pluto-studies-nasa-new-horizons/)
In the most extreme circumstances of this simple climate model, which was developed using data from New Horizons, "the pressure and temperature are high e**ugh that liquids may have existed on the surface of Pluto, liquid nitrogen, in the past,"*New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern said during a press conference Monday. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/22/pluto-liquid-nitrogen-lakes/)
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