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Briley Lewis

Pluto may have an ice-spewing 'supervolcano' the size of Yellowstone, New Horizons data reveals

Pluto's bladed terrain as seen from NASA's New Horizons during its July 2015 flyby.

Demoted planet Pluto may have an ice volcano on its surface the size of Yellowstone, scientists recently discovered.

The newly discovered volcano, Kiladze Caldera, was originally pegged as a crater via images captured by NASA's New Horizons mission. After taking a second look at data from New Horizons, scientists now think Kiladze Caldera has erupted multiple times over its history, spewing around "a thousand kilometers of cryo-lava" — or enough to almost cover the city of Los Angeles — in each of its largest eruptions, the researchers wrote in a study submitted to the journal Icarus and published on the preprint database arXiv.

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