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Amazing video. But do note, > Images from this spectacular passage have been color enhanced, vertically scaled, and digitally combined I was quite surprised a
by jauntywundrkind 1y ago
Amazing video. But do note,
> Images from this spectacular passage have been color enhanced, vertically scaled, and digitally combined
I was quite surprised at the height of various features. Turns out yeah Pluto's not actually that wildly mountainous.
- florbo 1y agoJust guessing here, but I think the vertical scaling might be for translating some of the top-down images they have. If you take a look at the photo below, Pluto appears to have pretty rough terrain. I didn't find anything about post-processing for this particular image, sorry in advance if I missed it. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19947 https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19947
- petters 1y agoThanks, those very, very big mountains made no sense to me. The radius of Pluto is more than 1000 km
- yencabulator 1y agoPluto has some mean mountains. Think low gravity and no erosion. > With peaks reaching 6.2 km (3.9 mi; 20,000 ft) in height, they are the highest mountain range on Pluto, and also the steepest, with a mean slope of 19.2 degrees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzing_Montes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzing_Montes