A New Pluto Wonder? Possible Ice Volcanoes Spotted (Video)

Thursday, January 7, 2016 - 17:22 in Astronomy & Space

Two of the towering mountains observed by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its historic July flyby of Pluto — the 13,000-foot-high (3,960 meters) Wright Mons and the roughly 18,000-foot-high (5,500 m) Piccard Mons — appear to be ice volcanoes.

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