Question: You are tasked with finding out whether the ice on Pluto or in Antarctica can produce more water. Pluto has a mass of 1.2710^22 kg

You are tasked with finding out whether the ice on Pluto or in Antarctica can produce more water. Pluto has a mass of 1.27×10^22 kg and contains about 30% ice. Assume that the density of this ice is the same as it is at −175 ∘C. If humans traveled to Pluto on a spacecraft and were able to remove all of the ice from Pluto, and melt the ice, how many km3 of liquid water would form at 4 ∘C? Density of ice is 999.9 kg/m^3 Express the volume in cubic kilometers to three significant figures.

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