Ice Volcanoes on Pluto May Be “Recent”

A new analysis of images taken by the New Horizons in 2015 has found that several giant ice volcanoes on Pluto were active in the geologically recent past.

IMAGE: Perspective view of Pluto’s icy volcanic region. The surface and atmospheric hazes of Pluto are shown here in greyscale, with an artistic interpretation of how past volcanic processes may have operated superimposed in blue. CREDIT: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Isaac Herrera/Kelsi Singer

A new analysis of images taken by the New Horizons spacecraft as it flew by Pluto back in 2015 has found that several giant ice volcanoes…