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It’s Your Backyard Ventura County The latest spectra from New Horizons Ralph instrument reveal an abundance of methane ice, but with striking differences from place to place across the frozen surface of Pluto. “We just learned that in the north polar cap, methane ice is diluted in a thick, transparent slab of nitrogen ice resulting in strong absorption of infrared […]
Tags: Dwarf Planets, NASA, New Horizons, Pluto, Solar System