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‘X’ Marks a Curious Corner on Pluto’s Icy Plains
Transmitted to Earth on Dec. 24, 2015, this image from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) extends New Horizons’ highest-resolution swath of Pluto to the center of Sputnik Planum, the informally named plain that forms the left side of Pluto’s “heart.” Mission scientists believe the pattern of the cells stems from the slow thermal convection of the nitrogen-dominated ices. The darker patch at the center of the image is likely a dirty block of water ice “floating” in denser solid nitrogen, and which has been dragged to the edge of a convection cell. Also visible are thousands of pits in the surface, which scientists believe may form by sublimation. Image is about 45 miles (72 kilometers) wide.
Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
“X” marks the spot of some intriguing surface activity in the latest picture of Pluto returned from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft.
Transmitted to Earth on Dec. 24, this image from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) extends New Horizons’ highest-resolution views of Pluto to the very center of Sputnik Planum, the informally named icy plain that forms the left side of Pluto’s “heart” feature.
“This part of Pluto is acting like a lava lamp, if you can imagine a lava lamp as wide as, and even deeper than, Hudson Bay.”
- William McKinnon, deputy lead of the New Horizons Geology Team
Sputnik Planum is at a lower elevation than most of the surrounding area by a couple of miles, but is not completely flat. Its surface is separated into cells or polygons 10 to 25 miles (16 to 40 kilometers) wide, and when viewed at low sun angles (with visible shadows), the cells are seen to have slightly raised centers and ridged margins, with about 100 yards (100 meters) of overall height variation.
Mission scientists believe the pattern of the cells stems from the slow thermal convection of the nitrogen-dominated ices that fill Sputnik Planum. A reservoir that’s likely several miles or kilometers deep in some places, the solid nitrogen is warmed at depth by Pluto’s modest internal heat, becomes buoyant and rises up in great blobs, and then cools off and sinks again to renew the cycle.
“This part of Pluto is acting like a lava lamp,” said William McKinnon, deputy lead of the New Horizons Geology, Geophysics and Imaging team, from Washington University in St. Louis, “if you can imagine a lava lamp as wide as, and even deeper than, Hudson Bay.”
Computer models by the New Horizons team show that these blobs of overturning solid nitrogen can slowly evolve and merge over millions of years. The ridged margins, which mark where cooled nitrogen ice sinks back down, can be pinched off and abandoned. The “X” feature is likely one of these—a former quadruple junction where four convection cells meet. Numerous, active triple junctions can be seen elsewhere in the LORRI mosaic.
NOTE: for best viewing, click on the mosaic and zoom in.
Last Updated: Jan. 11, 2016
Editor: Bill Keeter
Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
una vez más, te repito...
sobra vida más allá de tu ombligo,
hay auras que no implican brillos,
hay karmas que no implican destinos,
a la distancia todo suele ser distinto,
desde el nacimiento hasta el parecer dormido...
el universo habla por sí mismo,
enseñando que todo existe,
más allá del sí mismo...
despierta hombre,
de tu sueño "dormido",
pareces no entender que nada es lejano,
cuando los sentidos de la luz se han comprendido...
el espacio que miras no está en la frecuencia de lo que has visto,
carece de tiempo,
y la luz es en esencia,
algo que no has entendido...
agradece lo que se te ha mostrado,
y no seas engreído,
ya que eso puede costarte el verte invadido...
desde la creación,
nadie lo ha pretendido,
sólo tú te crees dueño de algo que no te ha sido concedido.
FEBRERO 06, 2016.-