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Rahul Rao

We could float effortlessly in Pluto's subsurface ocean

Pluto and its heart-shaped Sputnik Planitia as imaged by New Horizons spacecraft in 2015.

Pluto's surface, fitting for a world whose surface shivers at a cryogenic -364 F (-220 C), is frozen solid. 

But beneath that nitrogen ice may lie a subsurface ocean of liquid water. A recent study suggested what that ocean might look like: It might be deeper than Earth's crust and denser than Earth's seawater.

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