Frozen Pluto has wind-blown dunes made of methane sand
In Summary : Part of the wonder of seeing new worlds is the radical difference from the planet you know. But if you know a little bit abo...
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In Summary :
Part of the wonder of seeing new worlds is the radical difference from the planet you know. But if you know a little bit about the processes that shape our Earth, it’s also enthralling to see those same processes play out under alien conditions. It’s a marriage of exotic and familiar, like an instantly recognizable melody appearing in a style of music you’re hearing for the first time. One familiar process is the formation of dunes. Large, repeating ridges of wind-blown sand can form in the desert, but they can also form as small ripples can on sandy stream bottoms or beaches. Wherever you have solid particles in a moving medium, dune-like landforms are possible. And we have seen plenty of them on Mars, on Titan, and even on comet 67P, despite its lack of a substantial atmosphere. In a new paper led by Plymouth University’s Matt Telfer, researchers working on the images from the New Horizons probe add another weirdo to the list of dune-bearing worlds—the dwarf planet Pluto.[...]
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Part of the wonder of seeing new worlds is the radical difference from the planet you know. But if you know a little bit about the processes that shape our Earth, it’s also enthralling to see those same processes play out under alien conditions. It’s a marriage of exotic and familiar, like an instantly recognizable melody appearing in a style of music you’re hearing for the first time. One familiar process is the formation of dunes. Large, repeating ridges of wind-blown sand can form in the desert, but they can also form as small ripples can on sandy stream bottoms or beaches. Wherever you have solid particles in a moving medium, dune-like landforms are possible. And we have seen plenty of them on Mars, on Titan, and even on comet 67P, despite its lack of a substantial atmosphere. In a new paper led by Plymouth University’s Matt Telfer, researchers working on the images from the New Horizons probe add another weirdo to the list of dune-bearing worlds—the dwarf planet Pluto.[...]
kindly refer the following link as follow up :
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1317097
