A new study provides evidence that liquid nitrogen is rising to #Pluto’s surface through cracks in the northern edge of the Sputnik Planitia, part of the massive heart-shaped glacier on the dwarf planet’s surface. This is the first evidence of liquid recently flowing on Pluto. Computer models led by Dr. Orkan Umurhan (SETI Institute) show that nitrogen ice at the base of Pluto’s kilometers-deep Sputnik glacier can melt, forming liquid nitrogen.

Learn more: https://www.swri.org/newsroom/press-releases/swri-study-finds-evidence-of-liquid-recently-flowing-pluto-s-surface

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