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Why is Pluto Red

Sun Nitrogen & methane haze Cthulhu Macula Sputnik Planitia (nitrogen ice plain) Data: New Horizons, 2015 Stage 1 Pristine ~0% tholin Stage 2 Photolysis 15–30% tholin Stage 3 Polymers 40–65% tholin Stage 4 Tholins 70–80% tholin Pause Sector Analysis —…

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Lunar Swirls

▮▮ Pause Back Next Watch on YouTube Open Short Open Full The Mystery ofLunar Swirls Ghostly calligraphy stretched across the lunar maria — features that cast no shadows and have no physical height, yet encode a billion-year record of the…

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Lunar Time Zone

LTC — Lunar Time Zone UTC — Universal Time –:–:– — Earth reference standard VS LTC — Lunar Time –:–:– — Coordinated Lunar Time +58.7 μs/day Moon clocks run faster — weaker gravitational field J2000: calculating… Time converter Time Direction…

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Largest Crater on the Moon

South Pole-Aitken Basin The largest confirmed impact crater on the moon — 2,500 km wide, up to 8.2 km deep S-POLE UP SPA BASIN ≈ CONTIGUOUS USA NASA/LROC south polar mosaic · South pole at center Diameter 2,500 km Max…