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forget water on Mars Pluto is the latest planet making waves in our solar system new data from the New Horizons mission suggests SAT the former ninth planet now demoted to dwarf planet may be hiding an entire ocean under that icy surface the first images from the mission earlier this year seemed to hint at the possibility but now the evidence is mounting a team of researchers at Brown University noticed mountains of ice and fault lines spanning hundreds of kilometers on Pluto's surface that indicate that the planet may have been growing over time due to this underground ocean as the water underground freezes it increases in volume forcing the surface to expand and crack over time so how does the water remain liquid when it's so far from the Sun according to the study the natural decay of radioactive elements in Pluto's core may be to blame over the last two decades we've discovered the earth isn't the only celestial body with an ocean to boast one of Saturn's moons and tube Jupiter's have bodies of water under their surfaces but if a planet as far away from the Sun as Pluto can support water it opens up the possibility for discovering more water and maybe even other forms of life in the universe