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Pluto Might Have a 100km Ocean Beneath Its Surface

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After NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto last year, it started sending data back to Earth, and thermal models have suggested there's an ocean beneath the planet's icy surface.

Brandon Johnson from Brown University's Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, said, "Thermal models of Pluto's interior and tectonic evidence found on the surface suggest that an ocean may exist, but it's not easy to infer its size or anything else about it."



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