Life on Pluto? A new discovery could change the view of scientists

And then I was going to take a round trip to Pluto? Recent discoveries of NASA Reveal new features of the dwarf planet. There are still no strong indications of life on the star, but images taken by the New Horizons mission reveal a surprise: Ice volcanoes.

Despite the latest perception, the record is of a flyby of the dwarf planet and its moons in July 2015. The novelty raises questions about almost everything scientists know Pluto.

You volcanoes They are in a rugged region of Pluto unlike any other part of the planet or the solar system itself. The formations are huge and occupy the southwestern part of the Sputnik Planitia ice sheet, which has a diameter of 1,000 km.

At the site, the land is very uneven and dotted with volcanic domes. These cracks are about 4 to 7 kilometers high and 150 to 225 kilometers wide. You Pluto volcanoes Its size is similar to that of Mauna Loa in Hawaii, which is one of the largest volcanoes on Earth.

Oddly enough, the area does not contain archaeological craters that can be seen on the surface of the planet, which indicates that volcanoes were active not so long ago. The absence of this configuration also indicates that the interior of Pluto has more residual heat than expected.

Since it was Pluto once upon a time Ocean Underground, finding these ice volcanoes suggests that there is still water, and it may be close to the surface.

Until the first decade of the twenty-first century, we learned that the solar system was made up of nine planets, with Pluto being the most distant. However, in 2006, the International Astronomical Union changed its category and became considered a dwarf planet.

Today, Pluto is known to be one of the many icy bodies orbiting away from the Sun, with an average temperature of less than 232°C.

With the new discovery and the promotion of the idea that Pluto has a much warmer interior than previously thought, new theories have been formulated. Scientists involved in the discovery are calling for a new expedition to be sent to the dwarf planet in order to directly assess its potential.