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Jul. 21st, 2015 07:16 pmVibrant Pluto stuns scientists : Nature News & Comment:
Some planetary scientists have interpreted this lack of craters to mean that the surfaces are incredibly young, geologically speaking. Frosty plains that sprawl near Pluto’s mountain ranges could be just 100 million years old — a fraction of the dwarf planet’s multibillion-year lifetime, says Jeffrey Moore, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, who heads New Horizons’ geology team.
But researchers have yet to work out exactly how often objects would have hit Pluto and Charon throughout their history. Unlike the inner Solar System (near Earth, the Moon and Mars), the outer Solar System tends to be sparsely populated, with more space between the objects that fly around. “We need to understand the impact rate,” says team member Veronica Bray, a planetary geologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Плутоны, Хароны. Вернитесь с небес на землю.
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