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What is Pluto size?
1,188.3 km
Pluto/Radius
What is the volume of Pluto in KM?
Bulk parameters
Pluto | Earth | |
---|---|---|
Mass (1024 kg) | 0.01303 | 5.9724 |
Volume (1010 km3) | 0.702 | 108.321 |
Equatorial radius (km) | 1188 | 6378.1 |
Polar radius (km) | 1188 | 6356.8 |
Is Pluto’s surface active?
“Pluto is much more geologically active than anybody predicted,” said Francis Nimmo, professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz and a member of the New Horizons Science Team. “It’s like Earth in that the surface is getting reshaped by erosion and other processes.
What is it like on the surface of Pluto?
Pluto doesn’t have a rocky surface. It undoubtedly has a rocky interior, but the surface is almost entirely covered with nitrogen ice (there are also carbon monoxide and methane ices, in variable amounts at different locations, but only as a small percentage of the nitrogen ice).
What are surface conditions of Pluto like?
Pluto’s surface is one of the coldest places in the solar system, at roughly minus 375 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 225 degrees Celsius). When compared with past images, pictures of Pluto taken by the…
What are the surface features of the planet Pluto?
400 miles wide.
Is Pluto closer to the Sun then Neptune?
Because of this, Pluto can actually get closer to the Sun than Neptune. The last time this happened started in 1979 and went until 1999. During that period, Neptune was actually the most distant planet from the Sun, and Pluto was actually closer.