Trinity News Daily - U.S. and World Latest News from Technology, Entertainment, Health and Sports

Breaking Daily News and Current Events

Sunday, January 17, 2021
Log in
  • Headlines
  • Entertainment
  • Health
  • Sports
  • Technology
  • U.S.
  • World
  • Latest News
    • Larry David Decided the Return of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ with New Season
    • Spiders Start to Fly in Chicago, As Their Season Begins
    • Hummingbird Vision Is Adapted To High-Speed Flight
    • Kronos Is The Latest Nickname For 2 Planet Eating Stars
    • The Ecosystem of Teller Lake in Colorado Threatened by Thousands of Goldfish
    • Researchers Dream of a World Without Mosquitoes
    • NASA Shares Spectacular Pic of Earthrise over Moon
    • The Ozone Layer is Repairing Itself
    • Giraffes Are In Danger Of Becoming Extinct In The Wild
    • Pregnant Woman Stabbed And Her Unborn Child Removed From Her Belly

Pages

  • Privacy Policy GDPR
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Trinity News Daily Staff
  • Who We Are

Recent Posts

  • Documentary Tells Story of Three Identical Strangers June 29, 2018
  • First Look at DiCaprio and Pitt in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” June 28, 2018
  • Jared Leto to Star in Spider-Man Spinoff “Morbius” June 28, 2018
  • Toby Kebbell Joins Vin Diesel’s Bloodshot June 27, 2018
  • New Record-Breaking Number of Academy Members Announced June 26, 2018
  • Actress Heather Locklear Arrested Once Again June 26, 2018
  • Game of Thrones’ Rose Leslie and Kit Harington Got Married June 25, 2018

Two Towering Mountains on Pluto may Be Ice Volcanoes, Scientists

By Leave a Comment

Email, RSS Follow

Two Towering Mountains on Pluto may Be Ice Volcanoes, ScientistsNew Horizons spacecraft’s data suggest that two towering mountains on Pluto may be ice volcanoes, scientists at NASA’s Ames Research Center said Monday. If the mountains, which are over 100 miles wide and several miles tall, are indeed volcanoes, it would be the first time researchers detect such landforms in the outer solar system.

The findings were first unveiled at a gathering of the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences in Maryland. Nevertheless, New Horizons researchers acknowledged that the two mountains may have other origins. Yet, one of them said he was no longer able to ‘unsee’ volcanoes.

Oliver white, a senior member of the New Horizons team and volcano expert with a PhD in the field, said that his professional experience compels him to tag a huge mountain with a ‘hole in the top’ as a volcano.

“While it’s crazy, it’s still the least crazy idea we can think of,”

White added.

Principal investigator Alan Stern explained that scientists never saw such a structure on the planets of the middle solar system. Stern added that the findings are ‘amazing’ since the planet is now very similar under this aspect to our home planet.

New Horizons had its first encounter with Pluto July 14. During the historic flyby, it took many high-resolution close-ups of the icy world, it probed its atmosphere, and took a quick glance at its five moons.

Charon, which is Pluto’s largest moon, is half the size of the planet which made many scientists ponder on whether the moon was in fact another planet. Just like our moon, Charon always shows Pluto the same face while rotating. It takes 6.4 days for it to perform a full rotation.

Yet, the other four moons are more chaotic in their movement since they spin a lot faster than they should if we take into consideration Pluto’s gravitational pull. Scientists believe that two of these moons emerged in the wake of a violent collision between two space bodies. The two moons may have been glued together at some point in their history.

New Horizons data revealed other intriguing details on the remote dwarf planet. Pluto’s nitrogen atmosphere is colder than previously estimated, and it doesn’t span as much into the outer space as previously thought.

Leslie Young, a researcher at the Southwest Research Institute, admitted that scientists thought that the planet’s thin atmosphere was seven to eight times larger than the planet. New data revealed that it is only two and a half times larger.
Image Source: Wikipedia

Email, RSS Follow

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: new horizons, pluto flyby, volcanoes on pluto

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 8 other subscribers

Recent Articles

cannabis plants

Prototype App Could Tell the Actual Effects of Cannabis on a Person

By Leave a Comment

Viagra pill

Viagra Might Help Fight Cancer (Study)

By Leave a Comment

Opioids in a plastic container.

Opioids Just As Effective As Over The Counter Drugs For Treating Chronic Pain (Study)

By Leave a Comment

Child being exposed to bright lights from a tablet.

Bright Lights Before Bedtime Can Prevent Kids From Going To Sleep (Study)

By Leave a Comment

Several opioid pills laid on a black surface.

The Opioid Pandemic Affects More and More US Children (Study)

By Leave a Comment

Close-up of a colon cancer cell.

Eating Nuts May Help Avoid Colon Cancer (Study)

By Leave a Comment

Woman suffering from obesity.

Prolonged Obesity Increases Risk Of Heart Disease (Study)

By Leave a Comment

Glass of red wine.

Drinking Red Wine May Keep Teeth And Gums Healthy (Study)

By Leave a Comment

Single fathers have higher mortality risk.

Mortality Rate For Single Fathers Is Surprisingly High (Study)

By Leave a Comment

Woman with her male partner on a field.

Your Partner Can Cheat On You Even If They’re Sexually Satisfied (Study)

By Leave a Comment

Cloth embroidered by a person suffering from schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia Patients Can Manage Verbal Hallucinations By Playing A Video Game

By Leave a Comment

mouse on leaf in tree

Researchers are Testing a Cancer Vaccine for Human Usage (Study)

By Leave a Comment

white pills on white surface

FDA Changes Packaging of Anti-Diarrhea Drug to Avoid Abuse

By Leave a Comment

Drinking too much alcohol during your teen years was potentially linked to liver diseases later on.

Liver Diseases Likelier In People Who Drank Large Amounts Of Alcohol In Their Adolescence

By Leave a Comment

Related Articles

  • Sistine Chapel God

    Most People Think God Looks Like Them (Study)

  • Mars colored in red and bluish hues

    Ancient Martian Lake Rocks Might Hold Evidence for Life on the Red Planet (Study)

  • work of Rembrandt

    Art Dealer Claims He Discovered A New Rembrandt

  • giant sloth skeleton

    Ancient Humans Were Hunting Giant Sloths (Study)

  • diamonds in a meteorite

    Meteorite Diamonds Might Have Come from Ancient Solar System (Study)

  • Artist's rendering of planet Nibiru

    Conspiracy Theorists Claim Biblical Rapture Will Happen This Month

  • Hubble Space Telescope

    Cosmic Alignment Reveals Most Distant Star

  • Isle of Skye

    Isle of Skye Dinosaur Tracks, Of “Global Importance” (Study)

  • Earth's atmosphere

    China’s Falling Space Lab Breaks Up Over Pacific

  • dark matter in space

    Ghostly Galaxy Has Almost No Dark Matter (Study)

Categories

  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Headlines
  • Health
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
  • U.S.
  • Uncategorized
  • World

Copyright © 2021 TrinityNewsDaily.com

About · Staff · Terms and Conditions · Privacy Policy

This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Learn more.