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Pluto's Blue Haze Not Just a Visual Spectacle But an Important Climatic Factor, Study SuggestsJWST finally detects radiation from Pluto that conclusively determines that Pluto's haze indeed impacts its climate.
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James Webb reveals Pluto's unique climate system - MSNPluto's haze drives its unique cooling mechanism How Pluto's haze affects atmospheric escape Implications for other worlds and Earth's past James Webb's role in confirming predictions. Pluto's ...
Hazy conditions. The Pluto flyby in 2015 revealed a world with surprising landscapes, marked by complex topography—basins, mountains, and valleys—ongoing geological activity like nitrogen ...
The haze particles that dominate Pluto’s atmosphere—such as nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide—control the atmosphere’s energy balance as the particles are heated and cooled. This phenomenon, ...
image: Snapshot of Pluto and Charon during kiss-and-capture. view more . Credit: Robert Melikyan and Adeene Denton. Billions of years ago, in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, two icy ...
A new potential mechanism by which Pluto trapped Charon. Cutting-edge simulations reveal a new potential mechanism by which Pluto trapped its biggest satellite, Charon. Skip to main content ...
The International Astronomical Union’s demotion of Pluto from planet status using a vote of its members made science seem arbitrary and political, undermining trust in science itself, according ...
Our Moon is surprisingly massive compared to Earth, but that ratio is dwarfed if we consider Pluto and Charon. The latter is about 12 percent of the mass of Pluto and technically doesn’t orbit it.
The warm air rises from the bottom up, expanding and cooling on its way up. ... This climate mechanism may be unique to Pluto, and has never been observed anywhere else in the universe.
Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.
Frigid Pluto, where the surface temperature dips to -390?F, is as lively as Mars. Among the new discoveries are glacier-like flows of nitrogen ice and a surprisingly hazy atmosphere.
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