View From Pluto’s Surface
Posted by Science Oxford on October 2, 2009 | comments
Wow! Gorgeous new artist’s impression of a view from Pluto’s surface, based on new research from ESO.
Visit this page »Artist’s impression of how the surface of Pluto might look, according to one of the two models that a team of astronomers has developed to account for the observed properties of Pluto’s atmosphere, as studied with CRIRES. The image shows patches of pure methane on the surface. At the distance of Pluto, the Sun appears about 1000 times fainter than on Earth.
Photo Credit: ESO/L. Calçada
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