"Pluto Has Dunes, but They're Not Made of Sand" Topic
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Tango01  | 01 Jun 2018 2:01 p.m. PST |
Images from NASA's New Horizons probe reveal mysterious mounds made of frozen methane or nitrogen "Pluto is an uncanny-valley world, with landscapes and vistas that seem strikingly similar to those of Earth—until you take a closer look. NASA's New Horizons mission, which flew by the dwarf planet in July 2015, found that Pluto has towering mountains, but of water ice rather than rock; vast plains of frozen nitrogen and other exotic materials; and blue skies provided by a wispy atmosphere that contains no appreciable oxygen. And now, a new study reveals another alien parallel: Pluto has an extensive dune system, but the grains that make up the wind-blown mounds are certainly not sand…" link Main page
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Amicalement
Armand
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| Legion 4 | 03 Jun 2018 6:51 a.m. PST |
It's aliens … of course … again … |
| Tango01 | 03 Jun 2018 2:25 p.m. PST |
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| Cacique Caribe | 04 Jun 2018 10:26 a.m. PST |
Maybe they're made by not-sand worms. :) Dan |
| Ghostrunner | 04 Jun 2018 11:54 a.m. PST |
Be careful there… …we don't want to start our first interplanetary war over copyright violations. |
| Tango01 | 05 Jun 2018 11:54 a.m. PST |
Ha-Ha-Ha…. Amicalement
Armand |
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