Almost 16 years after the end of planet status, once again Pluto has attracted the attention of scientists. Pluto was previously given the status of a planet in the Solar System, but it is very small. Due to being smaller than the Earth's moon, its planet status was abolished. Interesting facts have come to light in a new research done on Pluto. In this research, it has been said that mysterious volcanoes exist on the surface of Pluto. Nothing like this has been seen anywhere in the solar system.
Huge icy volcanoes have been observed for the first time on the rough terrain of Pluto. This study has been published in the journal Nature Communication. Kelsey Singer, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute and the author of this study, has told that in the southwest region of Pluto's Sputnik Planitia, so much mud comes out from under the ground that mountains one to seven km long are formed. It has been told in the study that many large mounds are seen in some areas with impact crater.
There is no such land on Pluto anywhere in the solar system. Scientists doing the research say that the inner part of Pluto was hotter than previously estimated or hotter than estimated by the New Horizons spacecraft. Kelsey Singer has speculated that the lava emanating from the icy volcano comes out slowly through a condensed mud-like mixture of cold water or a glacier-like solid flow.
Scientists believe that icy volcanoes exist on many more cold satellites of the solar system, but Singer pointed out that the volcanoes on Pluto are quite different from other icy volcanoes seen so far.
Study author Kelsey Singer says it is difficult to say at what time these volcanoes were formed. However, scientists believe that they must have been formed a few million years ago or sooner. They say that most of Pluto's area does not have craters or craters. He says that the possibility cannot be ruled out that they are still under construction.
In the year 2015, information about volcanoes was found on Pluto. When the American space agency NASA's New Horizons vehicle passed near Pluto. New Horizons is the first spacecraft to pass by Pluto, with the help of which photographs of the volcano were taken.
The study of Singer and his colleagues has shown that Pluto's landmass may have been formed due to subthermal volcanism. They believe that such a process is visible only on Pluto in the Solar System.
This new research gives information that Pluto is not a dead or inactive body. Scientists say that this can give a lot of information about Volcanism. Cryovolcanism is also found elsewhere in the Solar System, but the material found on Pluto is completely different.
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