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The researchers analyzed so-called "extensional features" on Pluto's surface.

The researchers used thermal model simulations and photographic evidence of extensional faults taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, to come up with their findings.

The video features stoic shots of the cat and is narrated with extensional musings and cutting criticism of the human world around him.

Many studies have reported changes in extensional faulting and in crustal and upper-mantle hydration along subduction zones, and several competing factors have been proposed to contribute to these changes7,11,12.

When they compared the front and side profiles of rock samples that contained stromatolite-like structures, they noted that one side shows a compressional deformation whereas the other shows an extensional deformation.