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By Eric Hand Jul. 15, 2015 , 7:00 PM
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The team also showed off new images of unexpectedly smooth surfaces on Pluto’s moon Charon—which, without an atmosphere, was expected to have an even more battered surface than Pluto. Radioactive elements in both bodies’ interiors could provide some of the heat needed for geological mountain building or ice flows that repave the surface. But Pluto, and especially Charon, are far too small for this heat to persist. The giant impact thought to have formed the two worlds could also provide a source of energy, but that probably happened billions of years ago.
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NASA-JHUAPL-SwRI
Smooth surfaces on Pluto's moon Charon imply geological reworking in the recent past.
Geoffrey Collins, a planetary scientist at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, unaffiliated with the team, is amazed by the images. “Clearly we’re seeing internal activity on the surface of Pluto and Charon,” he says. “Something is pulling apart their ice crusts.” Collins is excited because there is no way to explain the activity with conventional models of heat loss. “If the Charon-Pluto impact happened more recently, all the problems would be solved,” he says.
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July 15, 2010: NASA-funded researchers are monitoring a big event in our planet's atmosphere. High above Earth's surface where the atmosphere meets space, a rarefied layer of gas called "the thermosphere" recently collapsed and now is rebounding again.
"This is the biggest contraction of the thermosphere in at least 43 years," says John Emmert of the Naval Research Lab, lead author of a paper announcing the finding in the June 19th issue of the Geophysical Research Letters (GRL). "It's a Space Age record."
The collapse happened during the deep solar minimum of 2008-2009—a fact which comes as little surprise to researchers. The thermosphere always cools and contracts when solar activity is low. In this case, however, the magnitude of the collapse was two to three times greater than low solar activity could explain.
"Something is going on that we do not understand," says Emmert.
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originally posted by: wdkirk
Al Gore warned us about this. Had we only listened.
Dr. Anton Wallner, nuclear physicist at Australia National University Research School of Physics and Engineering, has been leading research on Earth’s deposits of Iron-60 which he notes are “a million-billion times less abundant than the iron that exists naturally on Earth.” And yet, Iron-60 deposits have been found all over the world. Dotted throughout the Local Bubble carved out of the ISM, there are some denser regions or clouds thought to be made up of remaining material from the supernovas themselves which contain Iron-60. Iron-60 has a half-life of 2.6 million years fully decaying in 15 million so any traces of the isotope had to be created and deposited on Earth within that period which coincides to when Earth was within the Local Bubble. Earth likely passed through these clouds of debris in the past leading to Iron-60 raining onto our planet and into the oceans. But while ancient supernova debris is falling to Earth, not all of it fell in ancient times. In fact, Antarctic snows revealed Iron-60 that landed on Earth within the last 20 years. Supernova debris is falling on Earth right now meaning we may currently be passing though one of those debris clouds seeded throughout the Local Bubble…called the Local Cloud.
originally posted by: murphy22
Nobody that I have ever known, is from Pluto.
Please explain to me? Why Pluto's "atmosphere", is something, I should be concerned about?
originally posted by: nerbot
Our solar system may have survived, rocks, gasses, metals etc... but what about the LIFE within it?
Title:
Is the solar system entering a nearby interstellar cloud
Authors:
Vidal-Madjar, A.; Laurent, C.; Bruston, P.; Audouze, J.
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Abstract
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Observational arguments in favor of such a cloud are presented, and implications of the presence of a nearby cloud are discussed, including possible changes in terrestrial climate. It is suggested that the postulated interstellar cloud should encounter the solar system at some unspecified time in the near future and might have a drastic influence on terrestrial climate in the next 10,000 years.
Date: May 24, 2010
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Is the Sun going to enter a million-degree galactic cloud of interstellar gas soon? A U.S.-Polish team of scientists suggests that the ribbon of enhanced emissions of energetic neutral atoms, discovered last year by the NASA Small Explorer satellite IBEX, could be explained by a geometric effect due to the approach of the Sun to the boundary between the Local Cloud of interstellar gas and another cloud of a very hot gas called the Local Bubble. If this hypothesis is correct, IBEX is catching matter from a hot neighboring interstellar cloud, which the Sun might enter in a hundred years.
originally posted by: ElectricUniverse
a reply to: Dalamax
Gina McCarthy, Obama's EPA and now China/Russia first Biden's first National Climate Advisor, had to admit in 2016 that the drastic "Green policies" and changes that the Obama administration wanted would not stop, nor mitigate Climate Change. Her argument was that even though the implementation of the most drastic changes these elitists/globalists want for the U.S., which was AND IS to completely stop all manufacturing and all emissions of atmospheric CO2 in the U.S. the most these changes could lower global temperatures is by a whooping 0.01C.
The thing is that even natural changes in temperature are and can be larger than 0.01C. So there is ZERO evidence these drastic changes would even lower global temperatures by 0.01C.