Astronomy Picture of the Day: Ice-spewing supervolcano may have been found on Pluto

 

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New Scientist

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Images of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft show a 44-kilometre-wide crater with hints of recent volcanic activity. A supervolcano on Pluto as large as the one in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, may have erupted and spewed ice over the planet’s surface just a few million years ago.