Pluto Surface Observations 1: NH Post-Encounter Phase, 1 Aug 2015- 10 Oct 2015 |
Pluto Surface Observations 1: NH Post-Encounter Phase, 1 Aug 2015- 10 Oct 2015 |
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In Pluto's north, there are these dark smudges (native res and enlarged) that I wonder if could be geysers or geyser remnants:
![]() ![]() Further north (I think..) is another smudge (and an apparent linear feature next to it, thrown in for good measure): ![]() ![]() (between them sits this obvious smudge feature, but it looks somewhat unrelated) ![]() One can find other similar features in the area. Further south, we do of course also have all these smudges in Burney crater: ![]() One of them clearly looks like it has a tail: ![]() Then there are those other numerous things with dark centres and bright haloes ![]() they look like craters, but their distribution is a bit odd (there are what looks like a bit like tail features (streaks) in picture above, also). Most of them look relatively spherical, but some might be more irregular in shape: ![]() There are also these really messy areas (not far from the previous feature) that could be related: ![]() ![]() For comparison, here are some dark smudges in the geyser region of Triton: ![]() ![]() -------------------- |
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