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Saturday, February 20, 2016

Charon

Science Daily: Pluto’s ‘hulk-like’ moon Charon: A possible ancient ocean?
summary - Pluto's largest moon may have gotten too big for its own skin. Images from NASA's New Horizons mission suggest that Pluto's moon Charon once had a subsurface ocean that has long since frozen and expanded, pushing outward and causing the moon's surface to stretch and fracture on a massive scale.

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