Frozen canyons found on Pluto's North Pole
Source: Houston Chronicle
Frozen canyons found on Pluto's North Pole
Hunter Lanier
Updated 3:07 pm, Friday, February 26, 2016
A new photo from NASA's New Horizons' spacecraft reveals Pluto's North Pole to be covered with frozen, colored canyons.
The widest of the canyons is approximately 45 miles, with most of the surrounding canyons around six miles wide, according to NASA. The widest part of Earth's Grand Canyon is only 18, by comparison.
NASA ascertains that these canyons are much older than the ones located elsewhere on the planet, for they seem degraded. "These canyons also appear to represent evidence for an ancient period of tectonics," said a spokesperson for NASA.
The coloring of Pluto's North Pole has also been deemed an "unusual" feature by NASA, as high elevations are yellow, which isn't concurrent with the rest of the planet.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/science-environment/article/Frozen-canyons-found-on-Pluto-s-North-Pole-6856281.php
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)crayons!
This paragraph even supported that misreading:
I need to get more sleep.
myrna minx
(22,772 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)sarisataka
(18,779 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)Yet, canyons makes so much more sense. The brain is a funny thing.
demmiblue
(36,898 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)Sorry for the thread-jacking, OP. Hopefully the action will bring more readers.
Rod Beauvex
(564 posts)I know the distance vision in my left eye is getting fuzzy, but yeesh, I saw crayons as well.
6chars
(3,967 posts)Thanks.
FSogol
(45,529 posts)Frozen what? Water? Jimmy Hoffa? What?
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)Pay attention.
demmiblue
(36,898 posts)Rafale
(291 posts)You're not the boss of me!
muriel_volestrangler
(101,368 posts)which is more common at lower latitudes: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/the-frozen-canyons-of-pluto-s-north-pole
Rafale
(291 posts)For the link.
eppur_se_muova
(36,299 posts)con·cur·rent
kənˈkərənt/
adjective: concurrent
existing, happening, or done at the same time.
"there are three concurrent art fairs around the city"
synonyms: simultaneous, coincident, contemporaneous, parallel