Guest FoxNews.com Posted January 6, 2017 Posted January 6, 2017 Cold, dark, distant Pluto is home to giant ice ridges, and now scientists are closer to understanding how they formed— and they think it was through a process that creates similar, smaller formations on Earth. The erosion-formed features on Pluto are called penitentes, and rise over 1,600 feet tall-- that's higher than the Empire State Building-- and stand about two to three miles apart. The professor behind the study used a computer model to predict how these dramatic features form. Continue reading... Trending right now: Only power users know about these secret iPhone features The dumbest gadget trend of 2016 is already dead T-Mobile is going truly all-in on unlimited plans Via BRG - Boy Genius Report
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