How Pluto's Heart Makes Its Atmosphere Spin Backward | SciShow News

Pluto's heart is revealing itself to be a major influence on the dwarf planet’s landscape and atmosphere, and scientists used atom probe tomography (APT) for the first time on lunar soil to study it atom by atom!

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