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Pluto Images Show a Dynamic World
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Newly computer-processed images of Pluto taken by the Hubble Space Telescope show that it is not simply a ball of ice and rock, but a dynamic world that undergoes dramatic atmospheric changes produced by its seasons, NASA said Thursday.
The images show an icy and dark molasses-colored world that is highly mottled and whose northern hemisphere is now getting brighter.
The images show that the body--once considered the ninth and most distant planet but now reduced to the status of dwarf planet--also turned noticeably redder in the two years after the turn of the millennium for reasons that are not clear, and that its equator features a large bright spot whose origin remains a mystery.
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