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Originally Posted by andyc
Mind blown by the images this morning  young geology, mountains and fewer craters!
And you can imagine how excited my planetary scientists wife is - seeing as she specialises in different types of water, methane and ammonia ice and hydrates in the outer Solar System... |
yep I agree very exciting, crazy young geology and a smorgasboard of chemical composition.
The mountains on Pluto likely formed no more than 100 million years ago -- mere youngsters in a 4.56-billion-year-old solar system. This suggests the close-up region, which covers about one percent of Pluto's surface, may still be geologically active today.
"This is one of the youngest surfaces we've ever seen in the solar system," said Jeff Moore of the New Horizons Geology, Geophysics and Imaging Team (GGI) at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/...?page=20150715