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- Title
GEOLOGICAL MAPPING OF PLUTO AND CHARON USING NEW HORIZONS DATA.
- Authors
Moore, J. M.; Spencer, J. R.; McKinnon, W. B.; Howard, A. D.; White, O. M.; Umurhan, O. M.; Schenk, P. M.; Beyer, R. A.; Singer, K.; Stern, S. A.; Weaver, H. A.; Young, L. A.; Smith, K. Ennico; Olkin, C.
- Abstract
Pluto and Charon exhibit strikingly different surface appearances, despite their similar densities and presumed bulk compositions. Systematic mapping has revealed that much of Pluto's surface can be attributed to surface-atmosphere interactions and the mobilization of volatile ices by insolation. Many mapped valley systems appear to be the consequence of glaciation involving nitrogen ice. Other geological activity requires or required internal heating. The convection and advection of volatile ices in Sputnik Planum can be powered by present-day radiogenic heat loss. On the other hand, the prominent mountains at the western margin of Sputnik Planum, and the strange, multi-km-high mound features to the south, probably composed of H2O, are young geologically as inferred by light cratering and superposition relationships. Their origin, and what drove their formation so late in Solar System history, is under investigation. The dynamic remolding of landscapes by volatile transport seen on Pluto is not unambiguously evident in the mapping of Charon. Charon does, however, display a large resurfaced plain and globally engirdling extensional tectonic network attesting to its early endogenic vigor.
- Subjects
PLANETARY surfaces; CHARON (Satellite) -- Surface; GEOLOGICAL mapping
- Publication
International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing & Spatial Information Sciences, 2016, Vol 41, Issue B4, p449
- ISSN
1682-1750
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/isprsarchives-XLI-B4-449-2016