Images of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft show a 44-kilometre-wide crater with hints of recent volcanic activity
A supervolcano on Pluto as large as the one in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, may have erupted and spewed ice over the planet’s surface just a few million years ago, according to an analysis
of a crater found by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft.taken by New Horizons when it reached Pluto in 2015. Scientists think these volcanoes, instead of pumping out lava as we see on Earth, eject lumps …
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