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Pluto's atmospheric surprise

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Last year, for the first time in 14 years, an alignment of stars with Pluto created an opportunity to observe the atmosphere of this most remote of planets. Though tenuous, the atmosphere has, remarkably, expanded.

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Figure 1: Pluto variations.

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Hubbard, W. Pluto's atmospheric surprise. Nature 424, 137–138 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/424137a

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