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It’s Spring in Northern Pluto
Spring doesn’t come often on Pluto, just once every 248 Earth-years. Says NASA:
Pluto has become significantly redder, while its illuminated northern hemisphere is getting brighter. These changes are most likely consequences of surface ices sublimating on the sunlit pole and then refreezing on the other pole as the dwarf planet heads into the next phase of its 248-year-long seasonal cycle. The dramatic change in color apparently took place in a two-year period, from 2000 to 2002.
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The Hubble pictures underscore that Pluto is not simply a ball of ice and rock but a dynamic world that undergoes dramatic atmospheric changes
The main consequence of all of this is we’ll all have to update our mental image of Pluto. It isn’t a frozen blue ice-ball swirling around the outskirts of our solar-system, it’s a multi-hued complex thing, with seasons. Still not a planet though.
Posted on February 5, 2010 ()
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