NASA’s New Horizons Data Helps Identify a Possible Source for Pluto’s Moon Charon’s Red Cap

NASA’s New Horizons Data Helps Identify a Possible Source for Pluto’s Moon Charon’s Red Cap

Scientists combined data from NASA’s New Horizons mission with novel laboratory experiments and exospheric modelling to reveal the likely composition of the red cap on Pluto’s moon Charon and how it may have formed. This first-ever description of Charon’s dynamic methane atmosphere using new experimental data provides a fascinating glimpse…