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 |
Aug 1 2015, 05:53 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
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Aug 3 2015, 10:14 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 423 Joined: 13-November 14 From: Norway Member No.: 7310 |
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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