24 August 2015
NASA’s Dawn gets up close and personal with Ceres: stunning conical mountain revealed in detail
... time will tell if the mountain will get an amazing name like some of the formations on Pluto and Charon did.
25 January 2016
Permanent N2 icecap at Pluto’s north pole may be responsible for an expanding atmosphere
... first place, long before probes were sent to image its surface. Other trans-neptunian objects such as Charon, Eris, Makemake and Quaoar were also analysed using this technique, and so far, none of the objects...
27 April 2016
Dwarf planet MakeMake found to have a moon
... to without the companion." Comparisons have already been drawn with Pluto, as it was the discovery of Pluto’s moon Charon that enabled astronomers to quickly calculate the mass of the system and therefore conclude that Pluto's mass...
22 June 2016
Does a subsurface ocean exist on Pluto?
... kind of expansion." It is possible that these features were created as a result of a gravitational tug of war with its moon, Charon. However, some of the tectonics look fairly fresh (from a geological perspective) and it is thought that the active...
