The New Horizons projected surprised NASA with the massive amount of data and summers ahs also confessed that he never even expected to regard the possibility of life on Pluto even as he had studied the planet his entire life. Summers is also the co author of the research paper “The Photochemistry of Pluto’s Atmosphere as Illuminated by New Horizons,” published in the journal Icarus in September. A second paper was also published in the same journal titled “Constraints on the Microphysics of Pluto’s Photochemical Haze from New Horizons Observations”.
Experts also have reason to believe that there is a vast ocean existing inside Pluto that could match the volume of the oceans on Earth. The areas also had great potential for supporting life. However, whether the ocean on Pluto can or cannot sustain life is a subject of further investigation and study. The fact that even cold, distant Pluto could have a subsurface ocean means that there are potential habitats even in apparently unpromising locations,” said Francis Nimmo, a New Horizons scientist based at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The amazing fact that alien life on Pluto could exist is definitely good news for mankind.
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