Posted on 02/22/2016 9:03:11 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Explanation: Given some poetic license, there is now scientific evidence that hell has frozen over. To start, Greek mythology holds that Charon is the ferryman of the underworld. Next, recent analysis of data taken by the robotic New Horizons spacecraft that shot past Charon -- the namesake that is the largest moon of Pluto -- in July now indicates that the cause of the huge chasm that runs across the 1200-km moon was that a huge internal sea froze. And since water expands when it freezes, the already hardened outer crust could not contain it and cracked. To better picture the crack, a fanciful journey over some of Charon's has been digitally created from collected images. The featured video starts by showing the Dark Polar Deposit (dubbed Mordor) near Charon's north pole and then flies over the dwarf-planet-wide canyon. Last, the video shows a much-debated protuberance called Moated Mountain. Understanding the history of Pluto and Charon is helping humanity to better understand both the friendliest and more forbidding places in the early Solar System from which Earth formed and life somehow emerged.
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[Video Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins U. APL, SwRI, Stuart Robbins]
Don’t understand. If it expands causing the crack when it freezes then it would have had to have been liquid at some point. Which either means it wasn’t always so cold (doubtful) or that the liquid was internal to the sphere and therefore a core is or was resident and the water was later exposed to cold or the core cooled?
Just one more NASA CGI.
Pluto and Charon do not matter as long as muslims dont feel good about their contributions to science like killing a bunch of people in India and then taking credit for the number 0
Yup. The second one.
this is way better than the crack on Uranus
Which likely means that smaller bodies than previously thought can have an active core for at least some time frame.
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