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Image by NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Investigation Institute from Wikimedia CommonsThe presence of tholins in the dwarf planet creates several dark, reddish patches on Pluto’s surface. Hence, Pluto’s color options varieties of pale off-white and light blue sections, yellow and subtle orange streaks, and huge deep red patches. With Pluto being somewhat smaller sized the Earth’s moon, the Tombaugh Regio is approximately the size of Oklahoma and Texas. ‘Tombaugh’ honors the discoverer of the planet even though ‘Regio’ is the Latin term for ‘region.’ Aside from getting blue skies, spinning moons, and mountains as...