23/08/2021
Pluto has been a part of the Solar System, till 2006 when it was labeled as a ‘Dwarf Planet’. Located at the furthest of the Solar System, it also is one of the coldest planets. But interesting fact about it is that scientists have almost ensured there’s an ocean beneath the surface of Pluto. Crazy right?
While our present day earth was just a surface of molten lava, forming it’s base, Pluto and it’s ocean were already forming. The current day Pluto has thick chunks of ice all around it. But what scientists discovered was through New Horizons s**cecraft, which revealed a complex and active surface geology from under the thick ice. Scientists then thought it to be an ocean. After years of research, scientists conclude that as Pluto was forming, it was gathering rocks and chunks of ice from the s**ce very slowly, gradually becoming big. Done that, the internal energy of Pluto caused the ice to melt inside and thus create a body of ocean beneath the thick ice. Further this was backed by revealing that the bottom of the ocean of Pluto could be explained by the decay of radioactive elements. This discovery truly unraveled a whole lot of questions for astrobiology, scientists till then have been on the work for more future discoveries!
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