Monday, April 11, 2016

Icy 'Spider' Spotted on Pluto in NASA Image (Video)

Icy 'Spider' Spotted on Pluto in NASA Image (Video)Well, it turns out that an icy "spider" has been found on Pluto. Pictures taken by from the New Horizons spacecraft, which whizzed by the dwarf planet last summer, show a series of long fractures in Pluto's surface, all extending from a single, central point. "The pattern these fractures form is like nothing else we've seen in the outer solar system, and shows once again that anywhere we look on Pluto, we see something different," Oliver White, a member of the New Horizons geology team from NASA Ames Research Center in California, said in a statement from the space agency.


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