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Scientists finally understand Pluto’s ice towers


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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.

 

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