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The Surface Age of Sputnik Planum, Pluto, Must Be Less than 10 Million Years
Data from the New Horizons mission to Pluto show no craters on Sputnik Planum down to the detection limit (2 km for low resolution data, 625 m for high resolution data). The number of small Kuiper Belt Objects that should be impacting Pluto is known to some degree from various astronomical surveys....
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| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4720356/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26790001 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0147386 |