New Investigations of Dark Floored Pits in the Volatile Ice of Sputnik Planitia on Pluto

Autor:	Stern, S. Alan, Keeney, Brian, Hoover, Rachael, Protopapa, Silvia, White, Oliver, Grundy, Will, Cruikshank, Dale P., Team, the New Horizons
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.3847/1538-3881/ac24a6
Popis:	Sputnik Planitia, Pluto's gigantic ice glacier, hosts numerous scientific mysteries, including the presence of thousands of elongated pit structures. We examine various attributes of these pit structures in New Horizons data sets, revealing their length, aspect ratios, and orientation properties; we also study their interior reflectivities, colors, and compositions, and compare these attributes to some other relevant regions on Pluto. We then comment on origin mechanisms of the pits and also the fate of the missing volatiles represented by the pits on Sputnik Planitia. Comment: 36 pages, 14 figures
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2109.01025 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv