A new discovery has amazed the world, as the galaxy continues to surprise us with its infinity. They now discovered that Pluto has a landscape carved out by ice volcanoes, of a kind and size found nowhere else on Earth. Solar system.
The discovery was made by the New Horizon spaceship from Nasawho took photos of two huge mountains named “Wright Mons” and “Picard Mons”, which were situated on a heart-shaped plain and would have an ice cap about 1,050 kilometers in diameter.
These formations located in an area of the planet known as “cryovulcanism“, can reach 7 km in height in the case of Picard Mons, the largest, and 4 km and 150 km in width, in Wright Mons.
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Scientists are studying whether these formations date from some type of geological mechanism which is involved in sculpting the terrain, so they believe that at some point muddy water mud appeared emerging from these icy craters along with compounds such as ammonia or methane that, when in contact with the cold of this planetsolidified creating new slopes, near the volcanoes.
is discovering in Pluto has science shocked by the number of ice volcanoes that exist only on this planet.