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I have a science brochure about Pluto do tomorrow and I've searched everywhere and I can't find the answer.

2006-12-10 11:21:51 · 4 answers · asked by happy13213 2 in Science & Mathematics Astronomy & Space

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Here is the best photo we have of pluto ... The little blocks are pixels in the digital camera. You can only tell it's kind of light with a dark patch on it so ;

Use your imagination

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060903.html

And one more in black and white with one of its moons

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000409.html

2006-12-10 11:27:27 · answer #1 · answered by Gene 7 · 0 0

You can not find the answer because the pictures of Pluto close up have not happened yet, here is a snip from one article about exploring Pluto with a lens.......
...."Who knows what else we'll discover?" says Dennis Reuter, Ralph instrument scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center. "Craters, mountains, maybe even nitrogen geysers like Voyager found on [Neptune's moon] Triton - we just don't know. All we have are these vague images of Pluto and Charon. But that's going to change when New Horizons arrives."

Ralph and the other New Horizons instruments are slated for delivery and integration onto the spacecraft this summer. The mission is planning its launch for January 2006, a gravity boost and scientific swing through the Jupiter system in 2007, and arrival at Pluto-Charon in summer 2015.

2006-12-10 11:34:54 · answer #2 · answered by Kyanne 3 · 0 0

"To speculate about the geology of Pluto and Charon with currently available data is very risky."
(http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003EAEJA.....7936M)

i don't think i want to do all your research for you (tho i had fun reading some and learned a thing or 2), but here are some places that seem to talk about your question:

"icy" - http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/pluto/features.html

"What Is It Like on The Surface?" - http://www.lessonplanspage.com/more/205plu.html

"bright south polar region" - http://www.solarviews.com/eng/pluto.htm

" Geologic data" - http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/Projects/BrowseTheGeologicSolarSystem/PlutoGeoA.html

"Physical characteristics" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto#Physical_characteristics

"Pluto's composition is unknown, surface is irregular" - http://www.whfreeman.com/ENVIRONMENTALGEOLOGY/EXMOD36/PLANET.HTM#PLUTO

"features of" - http://www.answers.com/topic/pluto

"My! Very educated morons just screwed up numerous planetariums."
at least pluto is still part of Disney... right?

2006-12-10 12:22:16 · answer #3 · answered by jiceberg 2 · 0 0

You can't find it because no one knows.

Even Hubble can't get a good enough picture of it to distinguish it's features.

If you can, I'd put more emphasis on the search for it, information about other mystery planet searches, and it's discovery.

2006-12-10 11:29:37 · answer #4 · answered by socialdeevolution 4 · 0 0

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