Tag Archive for 'Penitente'

Terrestrial penitentes from the southern end of the Chajnantor plain, Chile, in 2005; the view is broadly northwards; blades can be seen perpendicular to the viewing direction. Image credit: ESO.

50-Foot-Tall Ice Spikes Cover Europa, New Study Suggests

Oct 9, 2018 by News Staff

Fields of sharp ice growing to almost 50 feet (15 m) tall could be scattered across the equatorial regions of Jupiter’s moon Europa, according to a new...

Pluto’s bladed terrain as seen from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft during its July 2015 flyby. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.

Planetary Researchers Solve Mystery of Pluto’s ‘Bladed Terrain’

Sep 27, 2017 by News Staff

Strange formations are found at the highest altitudes on the surface of the dwarf planet Pluto. They resemble giant knife blades of ice and can soar many...

In this extended color image of Pluto taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, rounded and bizarrely textured mountains, named the Tartarus Dorsa, rise up along Pluto’s day-night terminator and show intricate but puzzling patterns of blue-gray ridges and reddish material in between. This view, roughly 330 miles (530 km) across, combines blue, red and infrared images taken by New Horizons’ Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera on July 14, 2015. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.

New Horizons Spots Penitentes in Pluto’s Tartarus Dorsa Region

Jan 6, 2017 by Enrico de Lazaro

Planetary researchers using data from NASA’s New Horizons mission have found evidence of snow and ice features on the dwarf planet Pluto that, until...