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The icy volcanism of Charon may be caused by its internal ocean freezing, expanding, and cracking the outer shell of the moon if it was thinner than expected.
The powerful space telescope was able to peer under the ice discovered on Charon nearly a decade ago to detect carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the moon, an intriguing discovery that offers ...
Detection of carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the stratified surface of Charon with JWST. Nature Communications , 2024; 15 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51826-4 Cite This Page : ...
Scientists combined data from NASA's New Horizons mission with novel laboratory experiments and exospheric modeling to reveal the likely composition of the red cap on Pluto's moon Charon and how ...
At half Pluto’s size and 12 percent of its mass, Charon is an unusually large moon. Since the 1990s, planetary scientists have thought that Charon could have formed in a similar way to Earth’s ...
The Pluto-Charon system is located an average of 3.5 billion miles (5.7 billion kilometers) from the Sun, and at that distance Charon’s surface gets down to a frigid –364° F (–220° C).
The cracks, bruises and colorful spots on Pluto's largest moon Charon are captured in stunning new detail in photos sent back to Earth by NASA's New Horizons probe.
The latest image release zooms in on a portion of Charon’s surface that lies kind of near the moon’s equator. Snapped by New Horizons as it approached the Pluto system on July 14, the image ...
What processes during the formation of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially led to it having cryovolcanism, and even an internal ocean? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar ...
“Charon is HUGE relative to Pluto, to the point where they are actually a binary,” Denton explains to Space.com’s Robert Lea. “[Charon is] half Pluto’s size and 12 percent of its mass.” ...
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