Blue Sky And Red Ice Found On Pluto

Tessa Berenson, Time
Thu, 10/08/2015 - 1:07pm

A NASA spacecraft has discovered that there is blue sky and red ice on Pluto. New Horizons returned its first color images of Pluto’s atmosphere last week, according to a release by NASA, and the images show a bright blue haze. According to a NASA scientist, the color occurs when small particles in the atmosphere scatter light. “Who would have expected a blue sky in the Kuiper Belt?

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