Ice Peaks Rise on Pluto’s Moon Nix, New Horizons Finds

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Source: The Daily Galaxy
Ice Peaks Rise on Pluto’s Moon Nix, New Horizons Finds
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NASA's New Horizons captured video of Pluto's moon Nix showing water-ice mountains up to about 11,000 feet tall that, due to extreme cold, behave like rock; the LEISA spectrometer data help scientists understand Nix's geology and the young surface of Pluto's moons.

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