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Water Ice and Blue Skies found on Pluto

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft just returned its first color images of Pluto’s atmosphere last week, revealing that the atmospheric hazes are blue. From NASA.gov: The haze particles themselves are likely gray or red, but the way they scatter blue light has gotten the attention of the New Horizons science team. “That striking blue tint tells …

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