18 November 2016
Pluto's heart is an ocean of slushy ice
... aligns almost exactly opposite from the dwarf planet's moon, Charon, in a locked orientation and why this should be, has ...," or weight, which has provided an anchor in Pluto and Charon's gravitational tug-of-war. It is thought, that like other large...
22 June 2020
Icy Pluto may have started off hot with an early ocean
... there is a lot of disagreement as to how long this processes lasts. Thanks to the New Horizons flyby of the Pluto-Charon system, scientists were able to determine that Pluto is marked by many troughs and scarps that cut across...
16 July 2015
Geologically active Pluto and Charon: Young mountains between Tombaugh Regio and Cthulhu Regio, ‘Mordor’ at Charon’s North Pole
..., Pluto is unlike any other known object in our solar system. And that’s beside its largest moon, Charon, which has a creepily darkened area on its North Pole (already informally referred to as Mordor – because, once again...
04 August 2015
Pluto, Charon, Lovecraft, Tolkien and other geek culture staples we should use on new worlds
...that now that we have highly detailed pictures of Pluto and Charon – all thanks to the historic Plut flyby undertaken by the...have been proposed for a whole lot of the Pluto and Charon topography. They include references to everything from Star Trek to...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... rolling landscapes revealed by the Apollo landings in the 1960s. Even so, his influence cannot be overestimated. A painting of Pluto & Charon done in 1991, plus a 3D model of New Horizons by Dan Durda added in 2015. Note the atmospheric haze, the...
22 June 2015
First “movie” of dancing Pluto
... the animation, as compiled via New Horizons’ color photos, is that Pluto and its moon, Charon, appear to orbit a central point, instead of Charon simply orbiting Pluto. NASA is now referring to this arrangement as a “double planet.” Pluto, of course...
