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Hubble sees Pluto changing color, ice sheet cover

Thursday, February 04, 2010 3:17:56 PM
By SETH BORENSTEIN

This undated handout photo provided by NASA, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows the dwarf planet Pluto.The image shows an icy, mottled, dark molasses-colored world undergoing seasonal surface color and brightness changes. (AP Photo/NASA)WASHINGTON (AP) - Spurned Pluto is changing its looks, donning more rouge in its complexion and altering its iceball surface here and there.

Color astronomers surprised.

Newly released Hubble Space Telescope photos show the distant one-time planet — demoted to "dwarf planet" status in 2006 — is changing color and its ice sheets are shifting.


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