Below is an image of "spiders" on the south pole area of Mars. Planetfour has a lot of good info about "spiders" on Mars and you can even help classify them. I count at least 33 partial or full "spiders" in this one image. The "spider" images on Planetfour are generally 200 meters across while Pluto's "spider" (Right Mons) image to the left is 680 meters across.
After running some numbers I've calculated that NASA's spider (my Right Mons) image is 38 times larger than the images of "Spiders" on Mars. This means you could fit 1,255 Mars "spiders" into this image of Right Mons on Pluto. In other words, the "spiders" on Mars are really, really tiny compared to Right Mons. It's like comparing a beach ball to a BB or a small bearing. Basically there is no comparison, this is one reason I'm calling it Right Mons and not a spider there is another more important reason.
Planetfour is very forthright about the fact they have flipped most of their spider images around 180 degrees. Not sure why they chose to do this but they did and they clearly say so. I want to show you a trick your mind plays on you with light. |
This image and drawing shows his idea, Pressure from below raised a bulge some fractures occurred which spilled out ripples of land ice to the eastern side creating oddly shaped ridges looking similar to scales. The pressure was relieved which allowed the land ice to then settle back down. PolishPlanetPursuer compared this to the process we see at Mount Saint Helens where one side of the volcano ruptured and spat out debris. |
Visit Page 11 and definitely page 48 for more details on why I don't think Wright Mons is a cryovolcano. Wright Mons is a series of mountain sized icebergs plowing into a muddy ice block berm getting slowly swallowed. The icebergs are 2 miles high indicating they are likely 4 miles deep floating in the Sputnik Planitia fluid creating vast cavities in the frozen mud like land which look like eddies. These icebergs are like a bulldozer plowing into and being swallowed by a muddy berm.
If you want to see something that looks like a real cryovolcano look at the center of NASA's spider which I'm calling Right Mons. Pluto never stops amazing me. |
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Now that I know what a cryovolcano looks like on Pluto, my eyes have been opened to see them elsewhere. Whereas, once I said I did not see any evidence of vents or cryovolcanoes west of SP, now I do. They appear to run in line with the North/South Ridge line. This could be a trick of shadows but the raised peaks with holes at the center seems to strongly suggest something is welling up from below creating these mounds. Some have holes on the edge of the mound but volcanoes on Earth exhibit this effect as well. The fact they run in a line which is in line with the ridge and near its edge supports the idea of material belching up from below releasing pressure. These cryovolcanoes are sandwiched between the icebergs which are mashing into the land ice and the Viking Terra bulged land to the west, suggesting there actually may be gasses developing under the bulge as the ices grind against each other creating some degree of pressure and heat. |
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>>>>>>>>>>>>> Lakagigar or Laki for short is a Fissure vent also known as a volcanic fissure that follows the Mid Atlantic ridge where the North American and Eurasian Plates are separating in Iceland. Look at how similar these volcanic mounds look to the cryovolcanoes that run along the ridge line west of SP. |
Here's Pluto's cryovolcanoes lining the western edge of SP along with a lake that looks very much like the scene at Lakagigar in Iceland. On Earth this scene is occurring at a location where two plates are pulling apart from each other. This seems to indicate Pluto is ripping apart along the western edge of SP. Laki erupted in 1783 and caused global cooling and many deaths around the world. Benjamin Franklin reported on its effects in Europe and North America. |
In this Google maps satellite view of Laki, I've tried to orient the scene to look as close to the cryovolcanoes on Pluto as I could. vast quantities of magma flowed out of these fissures and you can see ripples and flow patterns emanating out of the Laki volcanic mounds to the left and top. On Pluto the dynamics appear to be a bit different because of the cold temperatures. It looks like gasses vented and rained or snowed down onto the landscape rather than acting like a belching flowing fluid. The terrain surrounding the cryovolcanic fissure's on Pluto is red but immediately next to the fissures the area is dusted in white material all along the fissure line. Each fissure mound is white while the surroundings are red. |
The central point around which the Earth and Moon rotate called the barycenter is about a thousand miles from the Earth's surface or a quarter the distance to its actual center. As the Moon orbits the earth it pulls and stretches this spot.
This creates deformations in the Earths outer crust and causes volcanic eruptions. This is likely why Sputnik Planitia is directly opposite Charon. SP is a location at which Pluto is ripping apart and spewing out its nitrogen fluid interior just like magma on Earth. |