NASA's New Horizon Images Of Pluto Shows Off Stunning 'Snail-Like' Object.

A new group of images from Pluto, including this one below, thought to be a lump of dirty ice water...who knows? maybe it is a snail, complete with trail! Whatever, it's a great view.

More pictures at the Huff Post, (some people may have a poor reception from the video player there) I'll try to get a youtube capture at some time. Smurfy.

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a reply to: smurfy

Cool it almost looks like a road leading to a compound , if you squint and let your eyes blurr just enough.

Nice find! Very interesting images

a reply to: smurfy

looks like a close up of a old sidewalk

... or just a rock at the joint of two ice patterns.
I don't see how this could be exotic

a reply to: smurfy

Cool pic!

How big is it supposed to be? Is there any info on that?

- AB

originally posted by: Logiciel
... or just a rock at the joint of two ice patterns.
I don't see how this could be exotic

Well, the object is sitting on a plain of churning nitrogen ice, so it is kind of novel.

originally posted by: AboveBoard
a reply to: smurfy

Cool pic!

How big is it supposed to be? Is there any info on that?

- AB

The area in the pic is 50x 400mls with a resolution of about 77-85 metres per pixel. So perhaps less than ten miles across.

possibly a space craft.

a reply to: smurfy

So would that make the object like a 1/4 mile across?

a reply to: smurfy

how would that detail be of any difference, therefore novelty related to this pic found on Wikipedia?
isn't int simply that we see the details more precisely?

Here is a wider field of view. Several "snails." Though I've never seen a snail trail in both directions.
Right click>view for full sized.


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originally posted by: ChesterJohn
a reply to: smurfy

So would that make the object like a 1/4 mile across?

No. At 80 m/pixel, it would make it closer to 2.75 miles across.

originally posted by: Phage
Here is a wider field of view. Several "snails." Though I've never seen a snail trail in both directions.

It's camera shy. So it's pacing back and forth.
hence the term "snail's pace"

a reply to: Phage

Im curios why all the "snails" seem to be right in the middle of the "trails".

originally posted by: Logiciel
a reply to: smurfy

how would that detail be of any difference, therefore novelty related to this pic found on Wikipedia?
isn't int simply that we see the details more precisely?

This video gives a broader explanation of what is occurring,

a reply to: smurfy

A snail? I thought it looked like a seal!

a reply to: wigadidga

My guess would be that the "trails" represent boundaries of convective cells. The objects could be material which has been carried upward by them.

a reply to: smurfy

It is the fungi from yuggoth, just like the master predicted!

a reply to: solve

Aye, Its a Mi-go, or one of their abominable creations ..... Obvious!

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