Quote from: Astro_Zach on 07/26/2015 12:26 amDo we have any official maps yet?http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Science-Photos/image.php?gallery_id=2&image_id=254
Do we have any official maps yet?
Quote from: mcgyver on 07/28/2015 08:24 amQuote from: Astro_Zach on 07/26/2015 12:26 amDo we have any official maps yet?http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Science-Photos/image.php?gallery_id=2&image_id=254aaaaand... here come my new wallpaper, once again !
They look like bacteria. They are not!” Stern joked. “In any case, these sublimation pits are essentially ubiquitous across the southern portions of Sputnik Planum. … Some of the sublimation pits have merged, and it appears that the material beneath the ice is very dark.”One working hypothesis, he said, is that everywhere on Pluto the “actual planet” is very dark and all of the regions that are bright are due to ices deposited on the surface by atmospheric transport.“It appears this is confirming that, because we can see through the volatiles down to what appears to be the dark heart of Pluto.”
Jeff Foust – @jeff_foustNASA’s Jim Green at #LEAG16: expect to have a “naming event” in the next year for 2014 MU69 (the KBO New Horizons will fly by on 1/1/19).
The Final Images We Will Ever See of Pluto and Arrokoth from the New Horizon spacecraft......