Posted on 08/18/2023 12:00:55 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Gaze across the frozen canyons of northern Pluto in this contrast enhanced color scene. The image data used to construct it was acquired in July 2015 by the New Horizons spacecraft as it made the first reconnaissance flight through the remote Pluto system six billion kilometers from the Sun. Now known as Lowell Regio, the region was named for Percival Lowell, founder of the Lowell Observatory. Also famous for his speculation that there were canals on Mars, Lowell started the search that ultimately led to Pluto's discovery in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh. In this frame Pluto's North Pole is above and left of center. The pale bluish floor of the broad canyon on the left is about 70 kilometers (45 miles) wide, running vertically toward the south. Higher elevations take on a yellowish hue. New Horizon's measurements were used to determine that in addition to nitrogen ice, methane ice is abundant across Lowell Regio. So far, Pluto is the only Solar System world named by an 11-year-old girl.
For more detail go to the link and click on the image for a high definition image. You can then move the magnifying glass cursor then click to zoom in and click again to zoom out. When zoomed in you can scan by moving the side bars on the bottom and right side of the image.
Thats way far out there.
With enough energy and materials, we can build our own habitats, or make worlds habitable.
This link will let one simulate how bright it is on Pluto at Pluto’s “High Noon” from where one lives.
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/dwarf-planets/pluto/plutotime/
So is the blue stuff ice?
If I had to guess I would say that the blue is frozen nitrogen.
They’re the Democrat areas.
If you zoom in on the image you’ll see redish-brown deposits. I wonder what that is.
Sure looks like a planet to me.
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