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A new analysis led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) suggests that liquid nitrogen may be moving upward through cracks and reaching the surface of Pluto near the northern edge of Sputnik Planitia, the enormous heart-shaped glacier that dominates part of the dwarf planet.
The findings provide the first evidence that liquid has flowed on Pluto in relatively recent times. The research is based on observations from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft and was led b...
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