Pluto's Expanding Atmosphere Confounds Researchers, Pluto Atomosphere |
Pluto's Expanding Atmosphere Confounds Researchers, Pluto Atomosphere |
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Pluto's Expanding Atmosphere Confounds Researchers
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011...onf.html?ref=hp Could these be evidence of geyers like on Triton? |
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That sort of begs the question of whether Pluto had a much more extensive atmosphere in the past, unless the formation of Charon (and presumably Nix & Hydra) were relatively recent events in geological terms. Also makes me wonder what a reasonable rate of Plutonian outgassing over time might be.
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