Jul 11, 2015 06:40 PM
(This post was last modified: Jul 11, 2015 06:46 PM by C C.)
Houston, We Have Geology: http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Housto...y_999.html
"Now - in its latest portrait from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft - Pluto is being revealed as an intriguing new world with distinct surface features, including an immense dark band known as the 'whale'..."
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Scientists Captivated By Pluto's Emerging Geological Wonders: "Even to a layperson’s eye, Pluto’s terrain appears very different from that of Ceres or Vesta. In trying to make sense of what we see, Neptune’s moon Triton may be our best Plutonian analog with its frosts, weird cantaloupe terrain and an assortment of dark patches, some produced by icy volcanism....."
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"Every picture taken shows new details, and what were merely dark smears on earlier images have now resolved into (relatively) distinct geological details. [...] Pluto's surface is beginning to show details — stippling and stripes that could be craters, seas of frozen gas, or just about anything...." http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/new...us-n390346
"Now - in its latest portrait from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft - Pluto is being revealed as an intriguing new world with distinct surface features, including an immense dark band known as the 'whale'..."
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Scientists Captivated By Pluto's Emerging Geological Wonders: "Even to a layperson’s eye, Pluto’s terrain appears very different from that of Ceres or Vesta. In trying to make sense of what we see, Neptune’s moon Triton may be our best Plutonian analog with its frosts, weird cantaloupe terrain and an assortment of dark patches, some produced by icy volcanism....."
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"Every picture taken shows new details, and what were merely dark smears on earlier images have now resolved into (relatively) distinct geological details. [...] Pluto's surface is beginning to show details — stippling and stripes that could be craters, seas of frozen gas, or just about anything...." http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/new...us-n390346