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Pluto's main mystery solved

03.11.2017

For many years, Pluto seemed to scientists to be just a block of ice. However, they have always been attracted to the gigantic ice structures, the formation of which remained shrouded in mystery for a long time.

American astrophysicists have discovered that Pluto is not always a cold block of ice and rock. Periodically, the planet heats up and then cools down, a process that repeats over and over again over millions of years.

The process of heating Pluto allows methane to not just freeze on the surface, but to form strange ice ridges. This process is called sublimation, when the snow turns into steam without touching the surface of the planet.

On Pluto, such formations from methane can only be possible if the planet was previously significantly warmer than it is now.

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