Astronomy Magazine or Astronomy.com came out today 10/20/2016 with a really good article about Pluto, however, near the end Alan Stern still makes a reference to Wright Mons and Piccard Mons as cryovolcanoes.
NASA continues to support this claim even though there is (in my opinion) overwhelming evidence to the contrary. On this page I'm going to place NASA's false assertion into the proverbial coffin and nail it shut. The more something is repeated the more it's accepted as true. This video explains it better than I can. |
|
Wright Mons - Named by NASA to acknowledge and honor the Wright Brothers Piccard Mons - Named by NASA to acknowledge and honor Auguste Piccard Not Mons - Named by me to acknowledge and honor the Truth. Link to a good informational list of geological features on Pluto |
Section 1 - Close up.
Take note of how the red tholin covered land ice is deeply pitted along with shallow goose bumps on the surface which are acquiring clumps of gray fluid. Nearest to the SP fluid, the land ice is engulfed completely by gray fluid the further away from SP the gray fluid creates small globs which become more sparse the further you travel from the source of the fluid. Also take notice of how deep the deep pits are. According to NASA, they are nearly two miles deep and these are clearly not cryovolcanoes. These are merely 2 miles deep pits. |
|
Below is a wider view of the scene.
Compare the size of the deep holes on the right with the deep holes called volcanoes on the left. Also take note of how the large two mile high blocks of icebergs or land ice are clustering as a group and plowing into the softened mud like gray land that is being squished and pushed and mounded up looking like a bulldozer plowing into a muddy berm. Wright Mons is about 2 miles high as it is resisting the plowing influence of the 2 mile high icebergs that are pressing into the softened land ice. |
|
Seeing these images has made me realize, I've become complacent. So I went back and started looking closely at Charon to see if I could find anything I'd missed and there is one interesting feature. There is melt water along the rim of an impact which demonstrates how impact energy heats and softens the ices. |