Blushing Pluto? Dwarf planet takes on a ruddier hue: NASA

AFP ^ | Feb 4, 2010 | Unknown

[decimon]

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Pluto, the dwarf planet on the outer edge of our solar system, has a dramatically ruddier hue than it did just a few years ago, NASA scientists said Thursday, after examining photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

They said the distant orb appears mottled and molasses-colored in recent pictures, with a markedly redder tone that most likely is the result of surface ice melting on Pluto's sunlit pole and then refreezing on the other pole.

The remarkable color shift, which apparently took place between 2000 and 2002, confirms that Pluto is a dynamic world undergoing dramatic atmospheric changes and not simply a ball of ice and rock, according to scientists at the US space agency.

[decimon]

Whistling Mickey ping.

[beaversmom]

AGW?

[FlingWingFlyer]

Does Algore and his enviroloonies know about this? They’re all going to go ballistic trying to find out what we are doing to cause this to happen.

[cripplecreek]

[Mobties]

“the result of surface ice melting on Pluto’s sunlit pole and then refreezing on the other pole”
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D’ya think they have hockey sticks on Pluto, too?

[cripplecreek]

Only 5 more years till the New Horizons spacecraft makes its flyby of the PLANET and they can blame that.

[decimon]

AGW?

ECW (Extraterrestrial Cosmic Warming).

[Jack Hydrazine]

All of the planets have been experiencing global warming according to Richard Hoagland’s data.

[Lauren BaRecall]

I never could accept that Pluto was just an ice ball rather than a bona fide planet in its own right.

That’s a marvel that the sun can melt ice from so far away.

BTW, did we ever find a true planet X?

[John-Irish]

Ice on Pluto is melting! Well, I convinced, it’s gone from climate change here on Earth to ice melting on Pluto. Al Gore is right!!(not)

[cripplecreek]

Richard Hoagland’s data.

LOL He reads space.com too.

[late bloomer]

That explains the gorebicidal quantum shift..he being one of the 1803 alien invaders [along with hillary] from Uranus whose fundamental science knowledge store has suffered from lack of updating due to the multi-generational increase of sunspot activity within our own solar system... ; has misplaced the then unknown phenomenon of global warming on the wrong celestial body,207 years late....

[ciwwaf]

It’s not water ice.

[cripplecreek]

Don't mock me my friend. It's a condition of mental divergence. I find myself on the planet Ogo, part of an intellectual elite, preparing to subjugate the barbarian hordes on Pluto. But even though this is a totally convincing reality for me in every way, nevertheless Ogo is actually a construct of my psyche. I am mentally divergent, in that I am escaping certain unnamed realities that plague my life here. When I stop going there, I will be well.

Are you also divergent, friend?

[decimon]

Had your eyes checked lately?

In schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, life is not black and white

[cripplecreek]

I’m divergent dammit. everything is always black and everything is always white.

[decimon]

I’m divergent dammit. everything is always black and everything is always white.

Yes, yes, now take your pill and stop kicking the puppy.

[Personal Responsibility]

I blame the failed policies of the last eight years. /s

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks decimon.

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