The NASA`s new horizon spacecraft Whizzed past Pluto, is helping scientists to make new discoveries on the dwarf planet Pluto. “The impact crater located in Pluto`s Tombaugh Regio” area investigates about the past, and present structure of Pluto says the new studies.

The spinning cloud of material is collapsed to form the Solar System. By considering the initial spin, all the planets in the solar system spin in the same direction following each other. Changes that take place on the surface and interior of the planets and moons can rejuvenate them.

This might have been the work of Sputnik Planitia which is a large basin in Tombaugh Region says the new studies. After the first artificial satellite which is about 1,000 km wide and 2 to 3 km deep it is named as Sputnik Planitia. The name Sputnik Planitia has come into existence after a meteor impact which is similar to Meteor Crater in Arizona, US.

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Wandering Poles:

What refers to wandering poles? For this, we can explain with a small example; when you spin around someone, and suddenly if a bag is given to you to hold, then your balance will be out or it would change. The same way the mass of Sputnik Planitia makes changes inside the Pluto which is known as the moment of inertia. This “Moment of Inertia” will be changing until the new equilibrium attains. Hence it is known as Wandering Poles.

When the shape is changing the surface is leaving cracks as characteristic tectonic patterns. If there are still chances, the future study of these cracks could eventually help to determine the age of Sputnik Planitia.

Francis Nimmo, the scientist from University of California Santa Cruz Planetary, who also took part in the research, said: “Pluto has enough rock that there’s quite a lot of heat being generated, and an ice shell a few hundred kilometers thick is quite a good insulator. So a deep subsurface ocean is not too surprising, especially if the ocean contains ammonia, which acts as antifreeze.”

The sub-surface oceans can be evidence to say that there is a chance of growth in the outer solar system. Extremophilic organisms are found to grow at the liquid existence. The studies are yet to come to conclude the existence of life in Pluto.