I enjoyed this, thank you! I have a friend I have regular chats with who was a project scientist on New Horizons and she was very excitedly telling me about this on a call. Good to read all the fascinating details here.
It's pretty awesome how varied and dynamic these places on the edge of the solar system are turning out to be. You'd think they'd be boring lumps of ice out in the darkness, but nope, they're full of volcanoes and other mysterious happenings!
Yes! And there's that subtle bias in the way they're generally thought about, as "dead" and "lifeless" places, that belies how fascinatingly active they are in a physical sense if not a biological one (as far as we know so far, anyway).
I enjoyed this, thank you! I have a friend I have regular chats with who was a project scientist on New Horizons and she was very excitedly telling me about this on a call. Good to read all the fascinating details here.
It's pretty awesome how varied and dynamic these places on the edge of the solar system are turning out to be. You'd think they'd be boring lumps of ice out in the darkness, but nope, they're full of volcanoes and other mysterious happenings!
Yes! And there's that subtle bias in the way they're generally thought about, as "dead" and "lifeless" places, that belies how fascinatingly active they are in a physical sense if not a biological one (as far as we know so far, anyway).
I say: "Animula".