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What's Eating Pluto?

NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

On this episode of Our Island Universe: Recent images from Pluto show a curious area that looks like a giant bite mark... and the culprit might be methane ice.

NASA Article - Pluto: The Ice Plot Thickens