craterless plain of convecting frozen nitrogen, with smaller fractions of carbon monoxide and methane ices (the ice probably averages 3-4 km deep), situated...
DescriptionFlowing nitrogen ice on Pluto.jpg English: Original caption: In the northern region of Pluto’s Sputnik Planum, swirl-shaped patterns of light...
DescriptionFlowing nitrogen ice on Pluto - unannotated.jpg English: Original caption: In the northern region of Pluto’s Sputnik Planum, swirl-shaped patterns...
DescriptionPIA19936 crop - Flowing nitrogen ice on Pluto context.jpg English: This is a cropped version of image PIA19936 of Pluto's icy plain Sputnik Planum...
craterless plain of convecting frozen nitrogen, with smaller fractions of carbon monoxide and methane ices (the ice probably averaging 3-4 km deep), situated...
on Pluto - Context.jpg English: This area is south of Pluto's dark equatorial band informally named Cthulhu Regio, and southwest of the vast nitrogen...
of nitrogen ice flowing from the planum into adjacent depressions Cropped version of PIA19936 to provide context for image of nitrogen ice flowing from...
FILE DESCRIPTION: Pluto - New Horizons Atmospheric Escape and Flowing N2 Ice Glaciers – What Resupplies Pluto’s Nitrogen? Posted on August 10, 2015 at...
Regio on Pluto.jpg English: This area is south of Pluto's dark equatorial band informally named Cthulhu Regio, and southwest of the vast nitrogen ice plains...
into it. New Horizons scientists think flowing nitrogen ice that once covered this area -- perhaps when the ice in Sputnik was at a higher elevation --...