Pluto Predictions, What will NH find? |
Pluto Predictions, What will NH find? |
Oct 3 2008, 04:50 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
Dunes.
And basins. Maybe not as thoroughly chemically processed as Titan's basins, but basins. What do you think New Horizons will find at Pluto? How will Pluto surprise us? -Mike -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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Oct 3 2008, 04:52 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
One or more very small previously undetected satellites.
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Oct 3 2008, 05:54 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 8-February 04 From: Arabia Terra Member No.: 12 |
I like threads like these!
I think we're going to see a really diverse mixture of surface ages underlying the seasonal frosts. There will be four main surface types: (1) really old cratered regions (both bright and dark) that resemble Iapetus, (2) faulted regions (like parts of Enceladus, Ganymede etc) and (3) Triton-like 'cantaloupe terrain'. What about type 4? I think there will be a major difference between the terrain on the hemispheres of Pluto & Charon facing each other and the hemispheres facing away. As Earth-Moon is perhaps our best analogue for this kind of situation I will say that these facing hemispheres will have cryovolcanic maria. |
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