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Re: Charon pictures, reminds me of Mars!

Unread post by willendure » Fri Oct 02, 2015 3:08 am

It would appear to have a strong hemisphere dichotomy, like Mars. Hemisphere dichotomy is quite a common theme amongst the planets and moons.

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Re: Charon pictures, reminds me of Mars!

Unread post by D_Archer » Fri Oct 02, 2015 3:31 am

pls merge with main Charon thread.
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Re: Charon

Unread post by redeye » Mon Oct 05, 2015 9:43 am

It would appear to have a strong hemisphere dichotomy, like Mars. Hemisphere dichotomy is quite a common theme amongst the planets and moons.
I had never considered this before, a waterless Earth would have a similar "acorn" appearance. I see that they have gone for the ad-hoc cryovolcanism hypothesis.

The "mountain with a moat feature" is intriguing, I can't remember seeing anything quite like that.

Is the dark area at the top of the image centered around the magnetic pole? What is the large dark straight line feature to the right, a crater?

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Re: Charon

Unread post by D_Archer » Wed Oct 07, 2015 4:41 am

redeye wrote:Is the dark area at the top of the image centered around the magnetic pole? What is the large dark straight line feature to the right, a crater?

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Yes, the dark/red area is the magnetic pole.

Which picture are you looking at? I do not see dark straight line on the latest picture*

*https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/file ... elease.jpg

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Re: Charon

Unread post by redeye » Thu Oct 08, 2015 10:11 am

Which picture are you looking at? I do not see dark straight line on the latest picture*
I originally saw the images on the BBC website
The feature isn't apparent in the Hi Res images. Whereas the image you posted (first post) seems to have a dark straight line at around 2 oclock on the disc which looked to me to be the fringe of a large crater, but with land visible above it. Kind of reminded me of the raised crater (Odysseus Basin) on Tethys, it's not really "raised" I just can't think of a better way to describe it.
On the Hi Res image you can see the craters and stuff that morph into a dark straight line on the lower res image.
Pluto's atmosphere, which is composed mainly of nitrogen but also harbors some methane and carbon monoxide, is extremely wispy and extends far out into space. Over the eons, some of this air has escaped and been trapped by Charon's gravity at the moon's north pole
So the Earth's thick atmosphere freezes at the poles creating ice caps and Mars' tenuous atmosphere freezes at the poles creating "ice" caps. Now Pluto's practically non existent atmosphere, freezes on Charon, creating "ice" caps, but not on Pluto as far as I can see. Weird. If Charon has no atmosphere and is gravitationally locked to Pluto, why would matter be deposited at the Pole(s)?

Does New Horizons have the ability to tell us if Pluto has a magnetosphere?
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Re: Charon

Unread post by GaryN » Fri Oct 09, 2015 11:40 am

One of the lines appears to be a crater chain.
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Re: Charon

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Re: Charon

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Re: Charon

Unread post by D_Archer » Sun Oct 11, 2015 4:39 am

Crater chain.
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