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Pluto's icy volcanic region

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Pluto has a huge field of bumpy ice created by massive volcanoes

A unique lumpy landscape on Pluto was probably built up via ice seeping up from its surprisingly warm interior that has created volcanoes as large as those on Earth – and that cryovolcanism could continue to this day

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Pluto's dark side revealed by moonlight in pictures from New Horizons

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Pluto's dark side revealed by moonlight in pictures from New Horizons

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Pluto is covered in huge red patches and we don't know what they are

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Pluto is covered in huge red patches and we don't know what they are

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Science with Sam volcanoes

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Science with Sam: Are there volcanoes in space?

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Pluto and Charon

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Pluto's tiny moons may have been chipped off its biggest moon

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Pluto formed quickly with a deep ocean covering its entire surface

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Pluto formed quickly with a deep ocean covering its entire surface

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Pluto's icy nitrogen heart makes its atmosphere spin backwards

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Pluto's icy nitrogen heart makes its atmosphere spin backwards

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The solar system has too many moons – it's time for a cull

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The solar system has too many moons – it's time for a cull

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Pluto is coloured red by ammonia spewing from underneath its surface

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Pluto has an underground ocean kept warm by a layer of gassy ice

Pluto may harbour an ocean that’s kept liquid by an extra layer of gas molecules trapped in the ice at the base of its frigid shell

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It will be 'snowing' nitrogen on Pluto for the next century

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10 year challenge: How science and the world have changed

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Pluto’s weird ridges may be glacial landforms unlike any on Earth

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Methane ice and winds on Pluto make strange 'sand' dunes

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