NASA´s space snowman reveals secrets: few craters, no water
(World News Science)

NASA’s space snowman is revealing fresh secrets from its home far beyond Pluto. More than a year after its close encounter with the snowman-shaped object, the New Horizons spacecraft is still sending back data from more than 4 billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) away. “The data rate is painfully slow from so far away,� said Will Grundy of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, one of the lead authors. Astronomers reported Thursday that this pristine, primordial cosmic body now called Arrokoth - the most distant object ever explored - is relatively smooth with far fewer craters than expected. It’s also entirely ultrared, or highly reflective, which is commonplace...