The Mountains of Pluto Are Snowcapped, But Not for the Same Reasons as on Earth (IMAGE)

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The Mountains of Pluto Are Snowcapped, But Not for the Same Reasons as on Earth

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At left, the "Cthulhu" region near Pluto's equator, at right the Alps on Earth. Two identical landscapes created by highly different processes.

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NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute and Thomas Pesquet/ESA

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