Pluto's surface may once have harbored lakes of liquid nitrogen
 

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 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.

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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...


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