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Topic Reading-Vol.3647-4/6/2022
Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Pluto has giant ice volcanoes that could hint at the possibility of life
Pluto is a dwarf planet that orbits the sun at around 40 astronomical units, or AU, which means almost 40 times farther from the sun than Earth is, or 5.2 billion kilometers away from us. It takes nearly 250 years to orbit the sun. It is made of ice and rock and the surface temperature is minus 229 degrees Celsius. In order to survey this distant dwarf planet and that region of the solar system, NASA launched an interplanetary space probe called New Horizon in 2006. The probe successfully flew 12,500 kilometers above the surface of Pluto in July 2015. There, New Horizon recorded 6.25 gigabytes of information, but it took over a year to complete transmitting the data to earth because of the distance and weakness of the signal. Ever since started receiving the data, scientists have been analyzing it and recently announced a surprising discovery, ice volcanos. What could it possibly mean?
Enjoy reading the article and learning about the findings of the distant dwarf planet.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/29/world/pluto-ice-volcanoes-scn/index.html
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