The discovery can also give clues not only about Charon, but other objects out near Pluto.
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Trapped gas could be tainting the north pole of Pluto’s moon Charon dark red.
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.
Prepare to be amazed …
Pluto’s moon Charon seems to have had a violent past, with icy volcanoes leaving huge fractures.
From a mysterious haze to strange nitrogen snowfall, the latest pictures of Pluto pose many new questions.
