Trapped gas could be tainting the north pole of Pluto’s moon Charon dark red.
New Horizons continues to help unravel the icy dwarf planet’s secrets.
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After last summer’s Pluto flyby, the New Horizons spacecraft started sending data back to Earth – at 2 kilobits per second. Here’s some of what scientists have learned so far from that rich, slow cache.
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, as seen from Rosetta.
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Charon has a huge fracture system, unlike anything seen on Pluto.
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