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Pluto is an icy dwarf planet that usually lies beyond the orbit of Neptune in the Kuiper Belt.
The dwarf planet is smaller than Earth's Moon, with red snow-capped mountains as tall as the Rockies.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made its historic flight through the Pluto system in 2015, providing the first close-up...
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Images captured by NASA's New Horizons of dwarf planet Pluto have revealed ice volcanoes, and the possibility for potential habitability. New Horizons performed a flyby of Pluto in 2015, and scientists are still rethinking everything they thought they knew about the dwarf planet.
Pluto lost its planet status back...
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