Dunes of methane ice? Tiny Pluto's surface reveals big surprises

With just a single flyby, NASA ’s New Horizons spacecraft has already revealed that Pluto is an active little world with mountains and an atmosphere. Now it’s found another surprisingly Earth-like feature: dunes.The discovery, published in the journal Science, fills in a portrait of Pluto as a...

Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - June 1, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Amina Khan Source Type: news