True color photos showing the two hemispheres of Pluto photographed on June 27, 2015. At left, a large, dark red patch is visible. The four streaks in a row are seen at right. New Horizons will fly by the hemisphere in the left image. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI
To better picture in your head how big these small bodies really are, Pluto and Charon would both fit within the United States with room to spare. Credit: Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)
1 posted on
07/04/2015 6:56:24 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Tholians?
2 posted on
07/04/2015 7:00:36 PM PDT by
Viking2002
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To: BenLurkin
In "The Raven," Edgar Allan Poe wrote of "the Night's Plutonian shore."
Maybe at long last we will find out if Pluto has any Plutonian shores.
To: BenLurkin
In "The Raven," Edgar Allan Poe wrote of "the Night's Plutonian shore."
Maybe at long last we will find out if Pluto has any Plutonian shores.
To: BenLurkin
"a large, dark red patch is visible." Pluto has skid marks.
6 posted on
07/04/2015 7:24:25 PM PDT by
outofsalt
( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
To: BenLurkin
Or this:
9 posted on
07/04/2015 7:45:41 PM PDT by
FredZarguna
(Now, which is bigger, Pluto or Goofy?)
To: BenLurkin
"while Pluto’s coloration is likely caused by hydrocarbon molecules called tholins that are formed when cosmic rays and solar ultraviolet light interact with methane in Pluto’s atmosphere and on its surface."
Fossil fuels. ;-)
10 posted on
07/04/2015 8:32:46 PM PDT by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: BenLurkin
Sure hope we get better resolution pics of the 4 spots (????),
very interesting.
11 posted on
07/04/2015 8:41:18 PM PDT by
The Cajun
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