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What is surface like on Pluto?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Images of Pluto, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope have shown that Pluto's surface isn't just pure ice. Instead, it has a dirty yellow color, with darker and brighter regions across its surface. Hubble studied the entire surface of Pluto as it rotated through a 6.4 day period.

This included a "ragged" northern polar cap cut in half by a dark strip, a bright spot seen to rotate around the dwarf planet, and a cluster of dark spots.The surface

area of Pluto is 1.795 x 107 square kilometers; about 0.033% the surface area of Earth.

When Pluto is furthest away from the Sun, gases like nitrogen, carbon monoxide and methane partially freeze onto its surface.

Source: http://www.universetoday.com/13901/surface-of-pluto/

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