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Astro Bob blog: Pluto's Heart May Throb With A Salty Ocean

Remember Pluto's big, white, icy heart? A 62-mile deep ocean may rumble beneath it. And it's super salty too, much like the Dead Sea. Read post here.

2973509+Pluto Sputnik Planum closeupS.jpg — The close up shows the nitrogen ice-covered Sputnik Planum, the likely site of a giant impact in the distant past. The surface temperature here is about 380 below zero Fahrenheit (-229 C). A 62-mile deep ocean may exist beneath this region which spans 650 miles by 500 miles. Credit: NASA/APL/SwRI

By Robert King

November 17, 2016 at 1:38 PM

Remember Pluto's big, white, icy heart? A 62-mile deep ocean may rumble beneath it. And it's super salty too, much like the Dead Sea. Read post here .

By Robert King