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NASA scientists arrive in the Northern Territory for a rare event that they hope will reveal secrets of the solar system's most mysterious dwarf planet.

Cryovolcanoes — or ice volcanoes — can tower up to 4.5 miles tall.

Pluto, the Solar System’s largest dwarf planet, just became even more interesting with a report that icy lava flows have recently covered substantial tracts of its surface. In this context, “recently” means probably no more than a billion years ago. That’s old, of course – and there is no suggestion…

When the New Horizons spacecraft zoomed past Pluto in 2015, it snapped photos of what appeared to be two massive ice volcanoes. But all is not what it seems.