Air Apparent: Pluto's Eternal Atmosphere

Monday, September 30, 2013 - 08:00 in Astronomy & Space

Although billions of kilometers from the sun, frigid Pluto has an Earthly air: an atmosphere made mostly of nitrogen, the same gas that constitutes 78 percent of the air we breathe. But Pluto pursues... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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