Tag: Snowman

Arrokoth the ‘space snowman’ probably tastes like sweet soap

A lumpy looking space rock. On New Year’s Day in 2019, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft radioed to Earth images of the farthest object ever explored: a snowman-shaped primordial object named Arrokoth, one of many frigid residents in the Kuiper Belt that sits beyond Neptune’s orbit. The pictures revealed the surface of the two-lobed, 21-mile-wide (34-kilometer-wide) […]