Pluto's atmosphere found being stripped away by the solar wind

ENN
Jul 21, 2015, 7:38 am21 pts
New Horizons has discovered a region of cold, dense ionized gas tens of thousands of miles beyond Pluto — the planet’s atmosphere being stripped away by the solar wind and lost to space. Beginning an hour and half after closest approach, the Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) instrument observed a cavity in the…

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