New close-up images of a region near Pluto’s equator reveal a giant surprise — a range of youthful mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the surface of the icy body. Credits: NASA/JHU APL/SwRI
An awesome time to be alive and be a lover of space
I am happy to have been alive when these new discoveries seemed like they were advancing the knowledge of humanity...Lately, though, it is beginning to look like wasted money.
Where are all the photos?
It it mind-blowing to think that Pluto may be geologically active enough to have produced that type of landscape.
The question is how. Does it’s system of moons really exert tidal forces strong enough to cause interior heat? Or is it seriously possible that it has a heated core?
And this just came to me. One theory is that Pluto used to be a moon of Neptune. It may very well have been one until very recently to produce those features through tidal forces from Neptune. At some point it then got knocked off into its present orbit.
“Crispy Young Chasms”
Sounds like another name for Cheese Puffs =)
I just want to know how they can transmit that data millions of miles. Most days I barely get 3 bars on my cellphone. (Seriously, how can something transmit that far?)
Planets are like pornography. I don’t know how to define it, but I know it when I see it, and, by golly, Pluto is a planet.
That’s what I’m talking about.