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Audio long-read: Pluto’s dark side is overflowing with secrets
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18 minutes
Released:
Aug 7, 2020
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In 2015, after a nine-and-a-half-year journey, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft raced past Pluto, beaming images of the dwarf planet back to Earth.Five years after the mission, researchers are poring over images of Pluto’s far-side, which was shrouded in shadow during New Horizon’s flypast. They hope that these images will help give a better understanding of how Pluto was born and even whether a hidden ocean resides beneath the world’s icy crust.This is an audio version of our feature: Pluto’s dark side spills its secrets — including hints of a hidden ocean
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Aug 7, 2020
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