Pluto's Moon - Charon

Pluto's Moon - Charon

Pluto's moon, Charon, has a rusty red section crowning its polar region. New Horizons investigators discovered that it comes from methane gas escaping from Pluto's atmosphere due to its weak gravity and freezing on Charon.

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