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The Icy Mountains of Pluto
- dang 11y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9893412 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9893412
- fla 11y agoJust wondering, why was my submission removed and replaced by an equivalent one wich now has 280+ upvotes ? Was there anthing wrong with it ? EDIT: nevermind, by looking at the ids, it seems mine wasn't first.
- vruiz 11y ago> Unlike the icy moons of giant planets, Pluto cannot be heated by gravitational interactions with a much larger planetary body. Some other process must be generating the mountainous landscape. This is really exciting! There goes a theory. Charon seems to be also active, perhaps this suggests they split not so long ago? If that were the case it would be really interesting to know what hit them.