It’s ice. But it’s water ice. And it’s red.
NASA’s New Horizons probe keeps teaching us crazy things about Pluto, which as recently as earlier this year looked like a tiny speck in the best photos we had of it. Most recent discovery: Pluto has a blue sky and red water.
“New Horizons has detected numerous small, exposed regions of water ice on Pluto,” NASA noted in the press release. NASA doesn’t know yet why water appears on some regions of Pluto and not others, but it notes that Pluto’s watery regions are a deep red color.
“I’m surprised that this water ice is so red,” Silvia Protopapa, New Horizons scientist at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Could this be mined and used? Would that be worth it?
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