The rocket probe New Horizons sent back more pictures from the Pluto system. On Friday (17 July 2015) NASA released some of them. Among them: a frozen lake of carbon monoxide. This lake covers most of the western lobe of Tombaugh Regio (the “heart” on Pluto).
In the days that have followed, neither NASA, nor the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, nor the Southwest Research Institute has tried to explain the carbon monoxide finding. They published a terse caption for the [...]
