Pluto Is Losing Less Atmosphere Than We Thought

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Plutonian landscapes in twilight, under a hazy sky. NASA/JHU APL/SwRI

In less than a year, Pluto has gone from a minor object far away from the Sun to a key piece in our understanding of how the Solar System formed, as evidence by the publication of five new papers in the journal Science this week.

Here, we take a look at two of those papers, examining Pluto’s atmosphere and the space environment surrounding the dwarf planet, respectively. You can check out our other story for the other three papers.