...of the volatile ices found on Pluto’s surface make it unique among the visited places in the solar system. How Unique Is Pluto? Can Pluto be dismissed as a one-off...
...young features, so a “hot Pluto” model is needed— with a little help from (Incoming rock alert!… WHAM!!) impactors. This liquid water ocean has huge implications for how Pluto formed...
...Pluto occult a star on the night of August 18, 2021. This allowed them to measure the height and density of Pluto’s thin atmosphere. The press release says: Like Earth,...
...the planets with sizes relative to Jupiter. Inner Workings: Was Jupiter born beyond the current orbits of Neptune and Pluto? (PNAS). In this entry of a series called “Inner Workings,”...
...has lava-filled craters, and Mars has dead volcanoes, including Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system. Pluto may have current or recent eruptive activity. But why Enceladus, Triton,...
...Created Solar System,” with the latest material about Pluto. If you want to see a really tough case for the moyboys, watch it when it is released. (The episode is...
...on the western rim of Pluto’s Sputnik Planitia basin. These mountain blocks are likely disrupted pieces of Pluto’s water ice crust that are grounded in the nitrogen ice that fills...
If you remove the obligation to think in billions of years, many phenomena in the solar system make more sense. Pluto More anomalies on Pluto look young. “Pluto is coloured...
If the solar system formed more recently than believed, Darwinism is dead. Look how widely scattered the evidence is. Dunes, glaciers, and convection cells in Pluto’s Sputnik Planitia Pluto Recent...
...from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, challenge old-age beliefs, as we have been reporting for years. Planetary formation theories themselves are being revised way downward in terms of the time...
Ultima Thule, the farthest object ever visited up close by a spacecraft, looks like a snowman. New Horizons, the spacecraft that already made history with its stunning photos of Pluto...
...scheme “better” than another’s? Pluto’s Value Beyond Its Classification What’s much more interesting about Pluto than its name or classification is its geology. Listen to what Metzger and Runyon have...
...since the 2015 flyby of Pluto, the New Horizons team has released the most detailed maps ever of Pluto and Charon, and they are stunners. Mountains as high as Alaska’s...
...data from the 2015 New Horizons mission, however, shows that Pluto has been busy recently constructing sand dunes out of particles of icy methane. Pluto sand dunes on polygonal blocks...
...water and hemispheric dichotomy (5/03/14) Ceres organics (Phys.org) Saturn’s rings, the terrain dichotomy at Enceladus, the Phoebe Ring (10/07/09) Titan (10/17/13) Pluto’s terrains and moon Charon (7/15/15) Asteroids with moons...