Pluto's Salty Subsurface Ocean Could Enable Effortless Floating
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New research based on data from the New Horizons spacecraft suggests that Pluto has a subsurface ocean beneath a 40-80 km thick ice shell. This ocean, potentially as salty as Earth's Great Salt Lake, challenges previous assumptions that Pluto was too cold to support liquid water. The findings, derived from mathematical models and surface feature analysis, add to the growing evidence that Pluto is a dynamic world with an interior ocean.
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