New Horizons Finds Nitrogen Icecap Shaping Pluto’s Terrain
Active terrain on Pluto discovered in the New Horizons probe’s July 14 flyby appears to be driven by a thick layer of nitrogen ice at the bottom of the heart-shaped basin dubbed Sputnik Planum, team scientists reported at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting in San Francisco this week...
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