May 13

NASA’s SOFIA spacecraft makes new discoveries about Pluto’s haze

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In 2015 the New Horizon spacecraft passed by Pluto, and one of the images it took showed the dwarf planet had a hazy atmosphere. New data is now helping to explain how the haze around Pluto was formed. Remote observations of Pluto have been conducted by the aircraft-based Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy or SOFIA. Those observations show the thin … Continue reading

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