Pluto has rivers of ice similar to terrestrial glaciers | El Comercio Peru – Trade

The team responsible for the spacecraft New Horizons that went just wide of Pluto last week released new images of the dwarf planet.

Scientists say that this celestial body has layers of haze in the atmosphere having a thickness of about 160 kilometers (100 miles), much more than expected. It is believed that all this haze causes the reddish Pluto

As for his incredible ice flows appear to be relatively recent.. Arose just a few tens of millions of years

extreme cold of -229 degrees Celsius, so that water ice could not move alone ago, but scientists say the frozen nitrogen and other substances that are believed to be in Pluto would be geologically soft and therefore able to flow like glaciers on Earth

. Source: AP