The first observations of Pluto by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal dramatic phenomena on its surface, like seasonal cycles of volatile ice redistribution across its surface, and ...

Figure 4: Infrared spectra of Pluto with flux values at Earth’s distance, with and without the effects of haze radiation from Pluto’s atmosphere.

A recent study published in Nature Astronomy has confirmed a groundbreaking hypothesis about Pluto’s atmospheric conditions, ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this image of Pluto's surface shrouded in atmospheric haze. (Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI) The first observations of Pluto by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ...

"We believe these hydrocarbon particles are related to the reddish and brownish stuff seen in images of Pluto's surface," Zhang said. The researchers are interested in studying the effects of haze ...

JWST confirms Pluto’s haze cools its mesosphere and drives methane escape, coating Charon’s poles red. The haze absorbs UV light, heats the upper atmosphere, and re-radiates heat as infrared.

While a haze-free Pluto ought to be at a temperature of 100 ... someday provide a geoengineering solution to counteract the effects of global warming, if our environmentally-minded efforts to ...

Haze in Pluto’s atmosphere was detected in images by both the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) and the Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) on New Horizons. LORRI observed haze up ...

NASA's New Horizons mission, which flew by Pluto in 2015, unexpectedly revealed Pluto also possesses haze hugging the dwarf planet's frozen surface. Since Pluto, Titan and Triton are all icy ...