Previously I stated that the red stuff on Pluto encompasses the entire globe. I didn't demonstrate how I know this but I will now as I feel there is some good information contained within the patterns of the red stuff.
I will start at the most obvious location first, the equator. This red stuff has had the least amount of covering due to Pluto's rotation along with SP. SP is releasing something into Pluto's atmosphere and that something is deposited eastwards into the Wetlands. This means the westward side of SP is mostly untouched by this substance in the atmosphere as it has been adiabatically stripped away at the Wetlands. |
Here are three craters created by impacts along the North Pole area. We can clearly see how the impacts have carved below the white snow into the under surface and there we can see red stuff. The red stuff is completely covered in white methane snow but is obviously below the surface of the snow.
These are young impact sites as the snow has not had enough time yet to fully cover over the Red Stuff. In addition the white snow on the North pole has begun to change from white to yellow to orange and eventually to red stuff but this process takes a lot of time and this snow is relatively young. |
Traveling a little further south and still along the eastern edge, we can see how the fluid from the Wetlands have washed away all the Red Stuff from off the surface.
There are sections of land that seem to be colored reddish but these are not surface discolorations. This is deep into the land it's as if the land ice itself is infused with the red material looking much like iron rust in dirt here on earth. The land ice itself seems to have deep deposits of Red Stuff that is part of the mantle itself, its not just sitting on top. |
This area is demonstrating how the iron like red stuff is part of the deep mantle.
This is demonstrating how long the Red Stuff sat dormant it literally has become a part of the internal land ice called the mantle. The Desert Dunes exist because the moisture was stripped out of the air by the upland mountain peaks. The moisture that was wrung out of the atmosphere is what washed the surface clean of Red Stuff but at the Desert Dunes the moisture has been largely removed (not totally). Yet you can see that the Desert Dunes exhibit signs of a reddish hue, looking very much like iron in dirt on Earth. The significance of this is that Pluto has gone through at least two possibly more phases related to this Red Stuff. Pluto was dead or quiet for a long time then things changed. |
In this scene we can see how the white snow is laying on top of the red stuff but is thinned out since it is farther from its northern source.
All of this to make one simple but really important point. The Red Stuff was laid on top of Pluto's surface a long time before the gray cement colored stuff as well as the white methane snow. I believe the snow and the cement are byproducts of SP gasses that are being released into the atmosphere. This strongly suggest Pluto was dormant for a very very long time then bang, changes take place. |
This scene is near the upper area of the equator along the western edge of SP. In this scene it seems natural to interpret these ice blocks as having red stuff on the top of their surfaces while the white ice along the blocks edges are facing northward. But is that actually what we are seeing? For one thing, why are the white edges all pointing northward? As an example look at the top right corner. There is a large single mountain looking block structure. Along it's top surface are many raised bumps which have white stuff facing north while the southern wall that goes down into the fluid is mostly red. Look around and you'll see all the blocks are white on the north facing edge, |
Traveling a little further south and inside SP we see more examples. Along these icebergs we can see how the northward facing side of icebergs are white while the southward facing side is still covered in red stuff. There are also signs that wind is blowing some of the red stuff off the icebergs. I suspect the white stuff in conjunction with the fluid and its subsequent warmth is causing the red stuff to dissolve and evaporate along the surface of greatest contact or accumulation. As we travel further south the more energy will be felt during Pluto's summer years. We are south of the equator now so things should start to show more signs of heat energy. |
This scene clearly shows how the large iceberg in the middle is having the red stuff stripped off its north facing surface and is running into the fluid. One lone iceberg has red stuff facing northward indicating it was spun around on its axis while it floated into this area. One other obvious fact is that the red stuff is floating on the surface of the fluid and tends to migrate along the troughs that line the cells as well as the pot holes or pit holes in the fluid. Closer view of tholin desolving off icebergs and mixing into nitrogen fluid. |
As we migrate further south the scene starts to change. The upper part of this image shows how the white stuff is still dissolving red stuff off the north facing slopes of the icebergs but there is a change taking place around the center of this image. In the lower portion of this image you can see how the heavy gray material from the south pole is beginning to adhere to the southward facing slopes of the icebergs. During Pluto's summer years this area will receive more intense UV radiation from the Sun than areas north of the equator. Closer view of above image |
These icebergs at Norgay Montes still have much of their red stuff on the north facing surfaces because they were so far south the white stuff wasn't able to turn them white before they migrated down to the south pole. The clearest example of what is taking place here is the iceberg along the top left. It has gray stuff along its southern face along with some red material still attached to its north facing edge. Whatever gasses are being released from SP whether in the north or south, they seem to partially dissolve the red stuff or at least it makes the red stuff runny. |
The land in this area is muddy because this is the summer facing surface of Pluto. The muddy land is pressed and folded by the slowly migrating icebergs, this process is folding red stuff into the ripples in the muddy land.
I am so disappointed to see NASA and Alan Stern still promoting this scene to the world as a Volcano. If you don't understand why I say that please read page 11. and page 48 |
This is what NASA is calling a volcano which I am calling an eddy.
Here again, the red stuff has a story to tell. The red stuff that is in the small folds of rippled land was deposited into those folds when the muddy land was at the same height as the fluid. Look along the top of this image where you can see Red Stuff intermingled into ripples in the muddy land. Take a few two mile high four mile deep large icebergs, mash them slowly into the muddy land and you get what we see here. The red stuff erodes off iceberg cliff faces, it slides down the iceberg and into the fluid. the icebergs clustered together along low pressure troughs and pushed into the muddy land creating rippled circular eddy's. |
The Red Stuff allows us to map the direction of flow at SP as it leaves trails in the fluid. There is also an interesting clustering of icebergs which I've circled in yellow. There are three basic cluster; the middle cluster which sorta looks like two groups that can't decide whether to migrate south or north so they are just colliding with the edge of the land ice and spreading out. there is the northern cluster that shows us how the size of the icebergs on the surface demonstrate the relative depth of the fluid and then there is the group at the south called Norgay Montes. This group of icebergs is elevated between 2 and 2.5 miles high indicating the fluid is really deep at this point where the land ice is being pushed up into muddy like mounds 2 miles high. |
Here's an odd scene where vertical fractures are filled with Red Stuff as are the horizontal cracks but the horizontal fractures show signs of methane snow accumulation along with some of the Red Stuff running off the north facing wall.
The vertical cracks don't seem to accumulate the white snow. In the image below you can see how the white snow is mixing with the Red Stuff along the upper horizontal crack turning it orange. The vertical crack only shows signs of white snow where the crack turns and migrates in an easterly/westerly direction |
And then there is this set of fractures with Red Stuff lining the walls of the cracks. Initially I thought this was an impact site but while similar and confusing it doesn't seem to be from an impact.
These cracks mostly run vertical, meaning that if they are like the vertical cracks on the western side of Pluto then they should not accumulate white snow in them. The main vertical crack running from the center southward begins with the back edge covered in Red Stuff deep below the surface yet as the fracture migrates south it appears to accumulate some of the white snow along its back wall. These south migrating fractures lead into Tartarus Dorsa the Desert Dunes and are the valleys that separate the ridges of the dunes. This seems to be too coincidental to be a coincidence. The processes occurring on the eastern side of SP appear to be very different than on the west. It seems to me the arid atmosphere is contributing not only to the Desert Dunes with the north south ridges and the sharp angular snake skin like surface but also to this centralized fracture point called a spider (not my terminology but it fits). In the image below you can see how the Spider's fractures making up the Desert Dunes runs North and South, whereas, the fractures running East and West are primarily in the Wetlands. The Wetlands appear to have softened the land enough to create horizontal fractures. The dry desert while rigid is folding or fracturing in vertical patterns. |
I see Red Stuff on the North Pole of Charon. This site is called Mordor. This is an impact site where a red object slammed onto the surface of Charon. NASA says, unh uh is not. This is cold trapping |
I see Red Stuff on Nix. This Red Stuff on Nix suggest Nix is likely a fragment from Pluto, I'm suggesting this fragment came from Pitts' Pits. The brightness (albedo) and wobble of Nix indicates it is not 4 billion years old. NASA says, uh huh, is so. |
Update 7/14/2016 Here's an image of Nix with an obvious impact site from an object which was covered in red tholin. The only place in the Pluto system with red tholin is on the surface of Pluto. This strongly suggest that bits of Pluto were knocked off and collected in the same zone where Nix orbits. After some time orbiting in this zone the red tholin covered object collided with Nix leaving behind this impact site. This also suggest that Nix with its 56% reflectance came off Pluto. In order for the red object to have developed red tholin it must have been comprised of the same material as is on the surface of Pluto and needed the same long quiet period to develop the tholin. |