Pluto’s Heart Mystery Solved: Cataclysmic Collision Reveals Dwarf Planet’s Origins!
BERN, SWITZERLAND – Researchers have unlocked the mystery behind the heart-shaped feature on Pluto’s surface, which has puzzled scientists since NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured an image in 2015. Known as Tombaugh Regio, this heart-shaped feature is not entirely composed of one element, confounding scientists for decades with its elevation, composition, and reflective surface that differs from the rest of Pluto. The heart feature, encompassing a deep basin called Sputnik Planitia, is believed to have …