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| | New Horizons Web Site |
 | | You've seen puddles of water evaporate on a sunny day, and sublimation is the same, except the molecules jump directly from the solid ice to the atmosphere. |
 | | Pluto's solid surface, with its hills, valleys, craters and other topographic features, is primarily made of ice, perhaps similar to environments near the North and South poles of our own planet. |
 | | In the dim Pluto daylight, the astronaut may be able to see that the landscape has a yellowish or pinkish color caused by particles of haze that slowly fall from the thin, cloudless atmosphere. |
| pluto.jhuapl.edu /overview/faqs.php (1997 words) |
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