An 'extremely significant' discovery, this could reshape our grasp of Pluto forever.
"The features on Pluto are the only vast field of very large icy volcanoes and they have a unique texture of undulating terrain," added Singer. She emphasized that while it was hard to identify the precise time in the dwarf planet's past when these ice volcanoes came into being, her team believes"they could be as young as a few hundred million years or even younger.
"They suggest that a small body like Pluto, which should have lost much of its internal heat long ago, was able to hold onto enough energy to facilitate widespread geological activity rather late in its history," added Quick, in the"These findings will cause us to re-evaluate the possibilities for the maintenance of liquid water on small, icy worlds that are far from the Sun.
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