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  Science   01 Jun 2018

Science, 01 Jun 2018

The dunes were spotted on images taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft during its 2015 flyby. (Photo: NASA)

Wondrous dunes on Pluto are made of grains of frozen methane

The dunes cover about 775 square miles (2,000 square km), roughly the size of Tokyo.

01 Jun 2018 11:43 AM

At least 75 homes — most of them in Leilani Estates — have been devoured by streams of red-hot molten rock creeping from about two dozen large volcanic vents, or fissures, that have opened in the ground since Kilauea rumbled back to life four weeks ago. (Photo: AP)

Mandatory evacuation ordered as Hawaii eruption hits four-week mark

The mandatory evacuation zone lies within a slightly larger area that was already under a voluntary evacuation and curfew.

01 Jun 2018 9:57 AM


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