Posted on 11/26/2015 9:18:56 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Explanation: Why are there unusual pits on Pluto? The indentations were discovered during the New Horizons spacecraft's flyby of the dwarf planet in July. The largest pits span a kilometer across and dip tens of meters into a lake of frozen nitrogen, a lake that sprawls across Sputnik Planum, part of the famous light-colored heart-shaped region named Tombaugh Regio. Although most pits in the Solar System are created by impact craters, these depressions look different -- many are similarly sized, densely packed, and aligned. Rather, it is thought that something has caused these specific areas of ice to sublimate and evaporate away. In fact, the lack of overlying impact craters indicates these pits formed relatively recently. Even though the robotic New Horizons is now off to a new destination, it continues to beam back to Earth new images and data from its dramatic encounter with Pluto.
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[Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins U. APL, SwRI]
Maybe God used Pluto to test out his BB gun
Wish I knew Braille...
Unusual pit.
you aren't kiddin'. Never seen one with markings like that.
Looks like an Aubrey Beardsley dog.
Angelina Jolie say’s her trainned poodle Brad is an unusual Pitt.
:') Goosebumps.
Pits being easily identified my the presence of Marine recruits doing ‘bends and thrusts, faster than possible’ in them. I had no idea we had an MCRD on Pluto.
Holy moly shotgun blasts batman, someone has been taking target practice poor old Pluto.
Looks like Carolina bays.
I agree, looks like splatter from an impact or near-impact, in the latter possibility an object reached its Roche limit and arrived in thousands of fragments.
That place is the pits.
Uh oh! The giant Plutonian botflies have hatched and are now swarming somewhere in the solar system!
Out in the holes where the Heechee hid
Out in the caves of the stars
Sliding the tunnels they slashed and they slid
Healing the Heechee hacked scars
We’re coming through
Little lost Heechee we’re looking for you
Acne.
Hey, stumped me, nice!
Heh heh... the only thing I like about those two is, they show up (or rather, she does) on the checkstand tabloids once in a while. For the past year or so, they’re the only familiar faces on those, unless it’s the freakin’ Kardashians. Everyone else, young, unfamilar, and id’d by just first names which are meaningless to me. :’)
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