NAVIGATION MISSION PLUTO MISSION PLUTO MULTIMEDIA ARCHIVES CURRENT TWITTER FEED SCIENCE SHORTS MEDIA CONTACTS ARTICLE VIEW ARCHIVE PROBE MYSTERY HEART IMAGE CAPTURED NEW HORIZONS SPACECRAFT INFRARED IMAGES TAKEN THE RALPH VISUAL IMAGING CAMERA SURFACE SHOWS REMARKABLE RANGE RAINBOW PALE DEEP BRIGHT EXPANSE THE WESTERN LOBE TOMBAUGH REGIO SPUTNIK PLANUM RICH CARBON MONOXIDE METHANE HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY RESEARCH INSTITUTE FROZEN HEART ANCIENT IMPACT BASIN ONCE CLOSER TO THE NORTH SUBSURFACE OCEAN SCIENTISTS OFFERING SCENARIOS EXPLAIN THE FORMATION OF RESEARCHERS FOCUSED WESTERN SPUTNIK PLANITIA BASIN OPPOSITE TIDALLY LOCKED SUSPECT HALF LONG AGO IMPACT KUIPER BELT OBJECT ONTO SCENARIO RESEARCH UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND ASTRONOMY PROFESSOR DOUGLAS HAMILTON NEW HORIZONS COLLEAGUES PUBLISHED THIS WEEK THE JOURNAL NITROGEN ICE SPINNING ICE CAP ASYMMETRY LOCKS TOWARD AWAY CHARON SPIN MATCH ORBITAL MOTION HAMILTON COMPUTER MODELS COAUTHORS INITIAL LOCATION EXPLAINED COMPLEX ITSELF FORCED DEGREE TILT MODELING TEMPERATURES AVERAGED NORTH AND SOUTH COLDEST COLDER ICE NATURALLY AT THE CENTER NORTH LATITUDE MODEL DEPOSIT ICES SOLAR LIGHT THE CYCLE THE RUNAWAY ALBEDO PHENOMENON EVENTUALLY LEAD THE ONE HEAVY ENOUGH SINK MILES KILOMETERS PRESENTED ISSUE NATURE SUPPORT HINT PRESENCE LEAD AUTHOR FRANCIS NIMMO THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA THE BASIN PRESENT THE MIGRATION EXTRA BENEATH NIMMO EXCAVATE THE SURFACE LETTING WATER UNDERNEATH APPROACH DENSER HELP DRIVE OCEAN BENEATH THE SURFACE SURVIVE HEAT RADIOACTIVE DECAY ROCKY ADDING SLOW THE NETWORK FRACTURES SEEN CROWN UNDERSTANDING ORIGIN PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR ALAN STERN THE SOUTHWEST PAPERS STEP THIS MYSTERY WHATEVER CAUSED NOTHING ELSE THE SOLAR SYSTEM WORK UNDERSTAND THING EXPLORATION OF PLUTO PUZZLES 21ST CENTURY PLANETARY SCIENCE THE NEWS THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED