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Youthful Frozen Plains Cover Pluto’s Big ‘Heart’ – Spectacular New Images from New Horizons
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| on July 17, 2015
| Ken Kremer
Posted on 07/17/2015 2:00:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
It screams “active geology”. My questions include how and why there is an active hot core.
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posted on
07/17/2015 2:46:23 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: Buckeye McFrog
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posted on
07/17/2015 2:55:18 PM PDT
by
Eddie01
(Liberal's lie about everything all the time)
To: Seruzawa
Close in photos have to be photoshopped first to cover up Disney copyrighted features.Too late...
To: AlmaKing
1,000 BPS, and it's the longest in distance, radio transmission the human race has ever accomplished.
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posted on
07/17/2015 3:20:02 PM PDT
by
Not now, Not ever!
(Girlfriend suggested I use pelousy in place of swear words, A good idea, I think)
To: JimSEA
Isn’t it the “tidal” action of orbiting together with CHaron?
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posted on
07/17/2015 3:23:04 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Not now, Not ever!
I thought we were still getting data from the Voyager probes, that are almost 20 billion Km away.
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07/17/2015 3:47:13 PM PDT
by
henkster
(Where'd my tagline go?)
To: centurion316
Yeah, they tend to be more irregular, but not always, for example here is a dry lake bed that is almost hexagonal:
So I think the conditions affect the geometry. If I had to guess, the quicker they dry out, the more irregular they will probably be. Just a hunch.
To: BenLurkin
Notice also, the “hills” only seem to form inside the “troughs”, and never on top of the segments.
It looks like something is seeping up through those fissures and piling up on the surface to form the hills.
To: Not now, Not ever!
it's the longest in distance, radio transmission the human race has ever accomplished. That we know of...we are getting the signal from afar but we have transmitted radio signals into space for years and have no concept of how far they my have traveled...
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07/17/2015 4:59:45 PM PDT
by
terycarl
(, COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVERALL)
To: BenLurkin
Having a moon that’s almost as big as you are keeps both cores hot???
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posted on
07/17/2015 5:16:51 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: JimSEA
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posted on
07/17/2015 5:19:37 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Still, Europa doesn’t have the ice mountain range building as does Pluto even though it does have indications of plate tectonics?
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07/17/2015 5:19:48 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: JoeProBono
If that’s Pluto, that’s a thriving city.
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posted on
07/17/2015 5:21:53 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Back in the 1970's, Iran used to call us the "Great Satan". Turns out they were right all along.)
To: JimSEA
Also note, no impact craters in the above image, which would indicate the area is relatively young.
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posted on
07/17/2015 5:31:53 PM PDT
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onedoug
To: onedoug
Very active plate movement/collisions?
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07/17/2015 5:34:17 PM PDT
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JimSEA
To: JimSEA
Seems the hills lift up around the “plated” regions, whereas if compressional, one should expect them across those surfaces as well. No evident subduction. Perhaps some sort of surface “stretching” in which plutonic material may fill in the gaps.
Very strange indeed.
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posted on
07/17/2015 5:55:55 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: onedoug
We’re likely to have fun with this for quite a while.
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07/17/2015 6:15:38 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: Lazamataz
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posted on
07/17/2015 6:26:04 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: JPG
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posted on
07/17/2015 6:57:36 PM PDT
by
Gideon7
To: Not now, Not ever!
What about Voyager? I believe that would bold the long distance record. They are both still sending back data.
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posted on
07/17/2015 8:00:41 PM PDT
by
Woodman
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