{"id":3927360,"date":"2026-08-06T09:02:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T14:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/liquid-nitrogen-may-have-recently-flowed-across-plutos-heart-shaped-glacier\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T09:02:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T14:02:36","slug":"liquid-nitrogen-may-have-recently-flowed-across-plutos-heart-shaped-glacier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/liquid-nitrogen-may-have-recently-flowed-across-plutos-heart-shaped-glacier\/","title":{"rendered":"Liquid nitrogen may have recently flowed across Pluto&#8217;s heart-shaped glacier"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A new study led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) provides evidence that liquid nitrogen is rising to Pluto&#8217;s surface through cracks at the northern edge of Sputnik Planitia, part of the massive heart-shaped glacier on the dwarf planet&#8217;s surface. This is the first evidence of liquid flow occurring recently on Pluto. The study is based on data from NASA&#8217;s New Horizons spacecraft and led by SwRI Associate Vice President Dr. Alan Stern, the principal investigator of the New Horizons mission.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-liquid-nitrogen-pluto-heart-glacier.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) provides evidence that liquid nitrogen is rising to Pluto&#8217;s surface through cracks at the northern edge of Sputnik Planitia, part of the massive heart-shaped glacier on the dwarf planet&#8217;s surface. This is the first evidence of liquid flow occurring recently on Pluto. The study is based [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}