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🚨 News from the Kuiper Belt
SwRI scientists find evidence of geothermal processes producing methane from within icy dwarf planets Eris and Makemake
➡️ press release https://swri.org/press-release/swri-scientists-find-evidence-of-geothermal-activity-within-icy-dwarf-planets
➡️ Icarus paper https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2024.115999
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