NASA's New Horizons space probe has spotted possible clouds hovering over Pluto, indicating that the weather on the icy dwarf planet is more complex than imagined. <br/><br/>Alan Stern, principal investigator from Southwest Research Institute in the US opined that Pluto's complex, layered atmosphere is hazy and appears to be mostly free of clouds. <br/><br/>Stern said that If there are clouds, it would mean the weather on Pluto is even more complex than we imagined.<br/><br/>The New Horizons spacecraft is presently 5.5 billion kilometres from Earth and about 540 million kilometres beyond Pluto, speeding away from the sun at about 14 km every second.
News On AIR | October 19, 2016 4:55 PM
NASA probe spots possible clouds on Pluto