What is the white area?
Privilege.
Styrofoam? Eggshell of Gamara? Ice? CO2? Pluto is actually an Old White Guy? A fiendishly clever paint job and they are still working on the grey shutters?
I'm going to go with it's really the giant eyeball of a race far different from our own, that this world is being watched, keenly and closely, by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busy themselves about their various concerns they are scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.”
This is the only part that projects into out universe...
I thought they were saying nitrogen ice. At any rate nitrogen ice was prominent in the discussions. It’s funny because we always think of liquid nitrogen as the epitome of cold ( putting aside liquid hydrogen and helium. ) I had honestly never given a thought to nitrogen ice before this, but it’s not really so much colder than liquid nitrogen. That’s awful cold though, for just sitting out in the back yard.
At these temperatures water ice is like granite, and in fact they’re saying the mountains may be water ice.