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New Horizons~Pluto~Ultima Thule

Perhaps Pluto needs to be restored to its former full planetary glory?
 
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From a beautiful sunset to majestic mountains: Stunning new images of Pluto

As stunning new photos of the dwarf planet are disseminated by NASA, a top physicist believes there may be alien life forms beneath the crust of the icy sphere.

Brian Cox, a professor of particle physics at the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester, recently made the startling statement after the New Horizons probe completed its spectacular flyby of Pluto.

As C2C previously reported vast glacial systems and mountains made of sheer ice spot the farthermost former-planet.

The Times reported that Cox said that the probe "showed you that there may well be a subsurface ocean on Pluto. If our understanding of life on Earth is even slightly correct - that you could have living things there."

In examining the newest Pluto imagery, Alan Howard, a member of the New Horizons team specializing in geology said, "We did not expect to find hints of a nitrogen-based glacial cycle on Pluto operating in the frigid conditions of the outer solar system."

"Pluto is surprisingly Earth-like in this regard," New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute said.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...-reveal-Arctic-landscape-stunning-detail.html


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Very cool.

But something's wonky. The mountains on Pluto are about 1/3 the height of Everest. I wonder if they exaggerated the elevations for effect. If the mountains are 3 times higher on Earth and Earth's diameter is 5 times bigger than Pluto's, you'd expect them to look similar in terms of bumpiness. Of course it matters how far you're observing from. I suspect the article got that wrong. If you're looking at a 1,500 mile diameter Pluto from 8,000 miles, you'd expect it to look like an 8,000 mile diameter Earth from 40,000 miles. But pictures from geostationary orbits, which are around 20,000 miles, make the Earth look totally smooth. Pictures from the ISS look smoother than this and they're only a couple hundred miles up.
 
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