Why a group of scientists think we need another mission to Pluto

The Verge ------- In the summer of 2015, a tiny NASA spacecraft called New Horizons zoomed by Pluto, giving us our first ever up-close look at this tiny world at the edge of the Solar System. But many are starting to think that flying by Pluto just once was not enough. A group of scientists argue that we have to go back to the dwarf planet — and this time, we need to put a spacecraft in its orbit. On Monday, dozens of planetary scientists — including Alan Stern, the principal investigator of the New Horizons mission — gathered together at a workshop in Houston to talk about what a follow-up mission to Pluto could look like. The workshop has been two years in the making, according to Stern, ever since the first pictures of Pluto started coming back from New Horizons. The images revealed Pluto to be a geologically active world, with vast plains of nitrogen ice and mountain ranges reaching 11,000 feet tall. And based on the images and data gathered by the spacecraft, there’s even speculation that Pluto harbors a liquid ocean underneath its surface, despite being located around 3.67 billion miles from the Sun. To learn more click on the picture below to read the article.