what-is-sputnik-planitia

Scientists have spent years digesting New Horizons data from Pluto’s flyby. The spacecraft found vast nitrogen glaciers, methane- and water-ice mountains, an intriguingly complex atmosphere, an age-spanning terrain profile including dunes constructed out of solid methane grains rather than earthen sand dunes, vast nitrogen glaciers and methane glaciers resembling Earthly ones and numerous dunes similar […]