Clouds in Pluto’s atmosphere may be composed of tiny frozen spherules of nitrogen or carbon monoxide, rather than snowflake-like clumps of tiny particles as previous research had suggested, new analyses suggest.
Information about Pluto’s atmosphere is, like that atmosphere itself, exceedingly thin because no space probes have yet visited there.
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