07-09-2015, 05:43 AM
This was taken yesterday.
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Five days, sixteen hours, and counting...
Makes sense. Gravitationally captured from the Kuiper belt... They're cousins.
Also their colouration. Pluto's reddish-brownish-tan appearance is caused by methane reacting with faint solar / stellar radiation, forget exactly how. Ah wait yes, tholin formation from UV bombardment. Just like Triton.
(Tholin as in tholin baths, right...)
And some interesting reminders from NASA that the Sun doesn't look 'just like another star' from Pluto's skies. A few hundred times brighter than a full moon here, I believe.
Five days, sixteen hours, and counting...
(07-07-2015, 09:30 PM)Cray Wrote:(07-05-2015, 01:35 PM)PortalHunter Wrote: I wonder how many books, TV shows, video games, movies, comics, illustrations, and childhood fantasies will be proven inaccurate with the depiction of Pluto?
Quite a few, but people have also been saying for decades that Pluto probably resembles Triton.
Makes sense. Gravitationally captured from the Kuiper belt... They're cousins.
Also their colouration. Pluto's reddish-brownish-tan appearance is caused by methane reacting with faint solar / stellar radiation, forget exactly how. Ah wait yes, tholin formation from UV bombardment. Just like Triton.
(Tholin as in tholin baths, right...)
And some interesting reminders from NASA that the Sun doesn't look 'just like another star' from Pluto's skies. A few hundred times brighter than a full moon here, I believe.