Earth & Climate

Pluto’s well-known heart powers icy breezes on the dwarf planet

The dwarf planet’s well known heart-shaped feature, which NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft found during its epic July 2015 flyby, drives atmospheric circulation patterns on Pluto, another investigation recommends. The vast majority of the activity comes courtesy of the heart’s left lobe, a 600-mile-wide (1,000 kilometers) nitrogen-ice plain called Sputnik Planitia. This exotic ice vaporizes during […]