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The geology of Pluto consists of the characteristics of the surface, crust, and interior of Pluto. Because of Pluto's distance from Earth, in-depth study from Earth is difficult. Many details about Pluto remained unknown until 14 July 2015, when New Horizons flew through the Pluto system and began transmitting data back to Earth. [1]
Little of Titania has been imaged, so it may well have larger craters. Pluto (dwarf planet) Sputnik Planitia basin: ca. 1,400 × 1,200 km [8] average: ~1,300 km 2,377 km 54.7% Partially infilled by convecting Nitrogen ice, heavily eroded Burney: 296 km (184 mi) 12.5% Heavily degraded, difficult to see Charon (moon of Pluto) Dorothy: ca. 261 km ...
It is suspected that Pluto's satellite system was created by a massive collision, similar to the Theia impact thought to have created the Moon. [29] [30] In both cases, the high angular momenta of the moons can only be explained by such a scenario. The nearly circular orbits of the smaller moons suggests that they were also formed in this ...
Photo of Charon centered on Ripley Crater. Nostromo Chasma crosses Ripley vertically. Vader is the dark crater at 12:00, Organa Crater is at 9:00, Skywalker Crater at 8:00, Gallifrey Macula and Tardis Chasma at 4:00. Craters on Charon are named after characters associated with science fiction and fantasy.
Plutonian regiones are named after underworld spirits in fiction and mythology, or after scientists associated with the study of Pluto. The following is a list of names chosen by the New Horizons team. [3] Names that have been officially approved are labeled as such.
NASA's New Horizons team has just revealed the most detailed images of Pluto yet, and the space agency is ecstatic about what it has seen: a smooth, young, and active surface on what had been ...
Nasreddin is a crater on Pluto's largest moon, Charon.The crater was first observed by NASA's New Horizons space probe on its flyby of Pluto in 2015. The name was chosen as a reference to Nasreddin, the hero of humorous folktales told throughout the Middle East, Southern Europe, and parts of Asia.
The carbon dioxide, they said, is likely to have been part of the primordial material from which both Charon and Pluto originally formed. Scientists had been surprised that carbon dioxide was not ...