"It's already making beeping sounds at me." -Oliver White
Skip ahead to 3:40.
Dear god Oliver White is a caricature of Oxford. Aside that, just seeing this video pop up and my first thought was "Charon shine." The reflection off of Charon to illuminate the dark side of Pluto is Charon shine, and it was hoped it would be enough to illuminate the dark side to get some imagery. That was just post flyby, and I've not heard about it since.
As expected of a geological map proposal, this video is packed. It may be the best reference to anything Pluto related for a long while to come. There's at least 2 slides in here that are worthy of being wall-hangings.
- At 9:45 The Haze-lit, space seems to be the only result of waiting for Charon-Shine images. They would have been dim anyway as one can imagine.
- Slide at 12:00 has two good looking maps shown without the nitrogen glacier/heart, but it's the map at 10:40 that we've been waiting for.
- At 13:30, a graph showing the first-I've-ever-seen-it six geological periods of Pluto's history and their names. They are dated by crater supposition, so it's just a scale of 'Older or Younger' then a specific crater, not, by chunks of measured time. The heart-lobe crater named sputnik is the oldest and therefore the first divider of eras.
- At 32:30. This RTS, a ring of rifting around Pluto longitudinally, and seemingly of the bedrock stuff of Pluto, the hard water ice. Similar to Tethes. These global features come up a lot but with variable circumstances. For example Charon has a canyon all the way around it's equator. Longitudinal is a new variation.
- At 35:00, Sputnik mountains seem to be described as tumbling, brecciated, blocks. That's a new one.
- At 41:45, He presents his argument that the paleo-RTS is an equatorial feature from before Pluto got knocked over by the Sputnik impact.
- Thoughts at 49:45
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