Pluto Got Mount Floating on Ice

                                                                                                                                                                                                      Pluto Got Floating Mountain of Ice, NASA Glenn to the dwarf planet Pluto continues to bring new surprises. This time, researchers at the Ames Research Center, US Space Agency (NASA), represented by Jeff Moore announced that Pluto has mountains of ice that floats.

According to The Daily Beast, Monday (10/11/2015), Pluto has a magnitude of a mountain is not much different from the mountains on Earth or Mars. Until now, researchers believe two large mountains and Piccard Wright Mons Mons near the south pole of Pluto was allegedly made of water ice freezes to form rock.

The mountain actually floats on a sea of ​​nitrogen from the top to the bottom is beginning to thaw. This is what distinguishes it from the mountains on Earth that stood on the land or the sea floor. This mountain has a height and a width of up to hundreds of kilometers.

The result is something like plate tectonics, but shaped pieces of ice, instead of rock. Pluto has a lot of loopholes that show the material forced to find a way out so that a crater called cryovolcanoes.

However, scientists still do not know what to make of this planet could spew the contents. The contents of the mountain was not the hot lava, but the ice that contains nitrogen, carbon monoxide, and other material from the bottom of the sea.

Moore has not conclude with certainty that this mountain includes volcanoes such as on Earth. If so, this mountain will be the first volcano in the outer Solar System. (kem)

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