Mystery of Pluto's Super-Cold Weather Solved

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By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer | November 15, 2017 01:01pm ET

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The more we learn about Pluto, the more interesting the little world becomes.

Hydrocarbon particles in Pluto's atmosphere are responsible for the dwarf planet's surprisingly low temperatures, a new study suggests.

Pluto is therefore the only planetary body known whose temperatures are driven more by haze particles than by gas molecules, study team members said. [Amazing Photos of Pluto and Its Moons]

"This is kind of a new regime of the climate of planets," lead author Xi Zhang, of the University of California, Santa Cruz, told Space.com. "We never saw this before."

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