Did you know about this massive amount of Nitrogen that is being emitted from Pluto?  Here is more info on this phenomenon:

Something mysterious is happening on the surface of Pluto: No matter how much nitrogen the atmosphere releases into space, it’s still chock-full of the stuff. New work examines the possible culprits for the stealthy nitrogen resupply, hinting at active geologic activity inside the dwarf planet.

“More nitrogen has to come from somewhere to resupply both the nitrogen ice that is moving around Pluto’s surface in seasonal cycles and the nitrogen that is escaping off the top of the atmosphere as the result of heating by ultraviolet light from the sun,” Kelsi Singer, a postdoctoral researcher at the Southwest Research Institute, said in a statement. Singer is an expert on impact craters, and she is working with Alan Stern, New Horizons’ principal investigator, to pin down the atmospheric nitrogen’s source.

Let’s check out a cool video of Pluto in detail on page 2

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