Pluto

[roguejuror]

So apparently these mountains are made of ice.

These mountains are up to 11,000 feet (3350 m) high; Earths Mt. Everest is about 29,000 feet at its highest point.

The photos show that Pluto has one of of the youngest planetary surfaces that NASA scientists have ever observed in our solar system. The mountains, which formed no more than 100 million years ago, are most likely made of water ice, which at Plutos extremely cold temperatures, behaves more like rock.



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Plutos largest moon, Charon, is believed to be volcanically active. Scientists thought it might have been an ancient terrain, covered in craters, but the newest image shows thats not really the case.

The dark area near its north pole was nicknamed Mordor (after the hellish region in Middle earth). Toward the bottom right, there is a canyon four to six miles deep. The Grand Canyon is only about a mile deep at its deepest point.

New Horizons also took the first resolved image of Plutos outermost moon, Hydra, which they discovered is probably comprised of water ice as well.

 

[Saulty]

We can get pictures from a remote spacecraft 100 million miles away in record time but we can't post pictures at GL from our smartphone.

 

[Mudcat]

 

[roguejuror]

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[reno cool]

aww, poor guy, doesn't get many visitors out there

 

[Mudcat]

At least he isn't called Uranus.

 

[roguejuror]

This artist's concept depicts one possible appearance of the planet Kepler-452b, the first near-Earth-size world to be found in the habitable zone of star that is similar to our sun. The habitable zone is a region around a star where temperatures are right for water -- an essential ingredient for life as we know it -- to pool on the surface. Scientists do not know if Kepler-452b can support life or not. What is known about the planet is that it is about 60 percent larger than Earth, placing it in a class of planets dubbed "super-Earths." While its mass and composition are not yet determined, previous research suggests that planets the size of Kepler-452b have a better than even chance of being rocky. Kepler-452b orbits its star every 385 days. The planet's star is about 1,400 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. It is a G2-type star like our sun, with nearly the same temperature and mass. This star is 6 billion years old, 1.5 billion years older than our sun. As stars age, they grow in size and give out more energy, warming up their planets over time.

 

[bacon]

 

[Cami]

Yeah I was reading an article about that the other day...not that exciting, couldn't care less.

 

[reno cool]

This artist's concept depicts one possible appearance of the planet Kepler-452b, the first near-Earth-size world to be found in the habitable zone of star that is similar to our sun. The habitable zone is a region around a star where temperatures are right for water -- an essential ingredient for life as we know it -- to pool on the surface. Scientists do not know if Kepler-452b can support life or not. What is known about the planet is that it is about 60 percent larger than Earth, placing it in a class of planets dubbed "super-Earths." While its mass and composition are not yet determined, previous research suggests that planets the size of Kepler-452b have a better than even chance of being rocky. Kepler-452b orbits its star every 385 days. The planet's star is about 1,400 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. It is a G2-type star like our sun, with nearly the same temperature and mass. This star is 6 billion years old, 1.5 billion years older than our sun. As stars age, they grow in size and give out more energy, warming up their planets over time.

that's like pretty interesting dude

 

[Cami]

lol I was just reading about Kepler...in 2017 NASA is looking to launch and find more inhabitable planets, so far this one is the best I guess.

 

[housepicks]

I think we should discontinue the space program.

 

[Cami]

lol, why is that House?

 

[housepicks]

Waste of money.

18 billion dollars a year for what.

Our infastructure is literally falling apart.

We can't afford it.

The national debt rises by 2 billion dollars a day.

That's right....2 billion....a day.

A day.

 

[bacon]

Yeah fuck space.

 

[roguejuror]

bacon don't they own the printing press? they can just print more money

debt problem solved

 

[reno cool]

Pretty much rj. Plus space program is a way to develop technology which the corporations can later sell back to the public in various forms. You work we print... hey that sounds like a good new capitalism motto.

 

[Mudcat]