Pluto has likely maintained an underground liquid ocean for …
2020年6月23日 — NASA/JHU-APL/SwRI. When early Earth was still a molten mass with a surface swimming in liquid magma, Pluto and its underground ocean were just forming. And for the billions of years since, liquid...
Five Years after New Horizons’ Historic Flyby, Here Are 10 ... - NASA
2020年7月14日 — After a voyage of nearly 10 years and more than 3 billion miles, the intrepid piano-sized probe flew within 7,800 miles of Pluto. For the first time ever, we saw the surface of this distant world in spectacular, colored detail.
Supervolcano eruption on Pluto hints at hidden ocean beneath …
2023年10月30日 — After analyzing some New Horizons images of Pluto, scientists found a supervolcano likely erupted on the planet as recently as a few million years ago.
More Evidence That Pluto Might Have a Subsurface Ocean
2020年4月1日 — Now, researchers report that those ripples could be evidence that Pluto has a 93-mile-thick ocean sandwiched between its crust and its core. The findings were presented the virtual Lunar...
Pluto’s dark side spills its secrets — including hints of a hidden ocean
2020年7月29日 — Pluto’s dark side spills its secrets — including hints of a hidden ocean. Images of the dwarf planet’s far side are revealing possible signs of liquid water, mysterious shards of ice and new...
Pluto’s ocean is capped and insulated by gas hydrates
2019年5月20日 — Pluto’s subsurface ocean and thickness variation in its ice shell may be maintained by a layer of methane clathrates forming an insulating cap to the ocean, according to calculations of...
New Evidence Strengthens the Case for Pluto's Underground Ocean
2016年6月22日 — There is a small chance that the liquid ocean under Pluto's crust could have slowly frozen into normal, non ice-II ice, but the researchers think that is unlikely.
Cracks in Pluto's Moon Could Indicate it Once Had an Underground Ocean …
2014年6月13日 — If the icy surface of Pluto’s giant moon Charon is cracked, analysis of the fractures could reveal if its interior was warm, perhaps warm enough to have maintained a subterranean ocean of liquid water, according to a new NASA-funded study.
Evidence for a hot start and early ocean formation on Pluto
2020年6月22日 — Pluto’s subsurface ocean may have formed early due to accretionary heating, a comparison of thermal evolution modelling with observed tectonic structures suggests.
New evidence for Pluto's subsurface ocean | Space | EarthSky
2019年5月23日 — Data from New Horizons suggested that Pluto has an ocean below the outer ice crust, and that the ice shell is thinner in the region called Sputnik Planitia. But according to standard theory,...