
Aligned pits and troughs? It's a DVD.
NASA's New Horizons mission has returned an intriguing photo of Pluto's Sputnik Planum plains, showing an "enigmatic cellular pattern" and "unusual clusters of small pits and troughs". The News Horizons image of the Sputnik Planum Cellular patterns, pits and troughs on Pluto's Sputnik Planum. Bigger version here Scientists …
"Aligned pits and troughs? It's a DVD."
Its a digital message from Aliens! It'll probably read "Its an offence to decode this copyrighted material without express permission from General Zog at Galactic Command. You civilisation is now forfeit and your planet will be confiscated and sold to pay the fine."
I doubt that meteorite debris would be as regular sized as these pits.
In the mess hall of the Start Destroyer Vindicator, in a galaxy far, far away.
Appalling performance from the 1st, 3rd and 7th turrets gunnery squads. You are all assigned to garbage collector maintenance for the next week. You are lucky that Lord Vader wasn't around to witness the spread of your volleys, he is nowhere as forgiving as I am.
Stop grumbling and say thank you, I am doing you a favor. If that was a Mon Calamari cruiser and not a target practice range in some obscure system's Coupier belt we would all be dead by now.
Seriously, they don't look like pits at all, morer like snowballs lying on the surface. And it's not the usual inversion illusion - before anyone tries to correct me... If you see the lighting on nearby cellular subsidence - it's opposite to that on the "dimples". And the sun light is coming from the upper right quadrant...
Unless they are not snowballs but actual pits, and the sunlight is coming from the left, which would explain why all pits are shaded on the left side and have a brightness on the right.
Plus there's the fact that NASA scientists are talking about pits. I tend to give them a bit of credence on interpreting interstellar pictures.
Please tell me what you think - the cells in the left part of the picture - are they ridged depressions or bumps surrounded by troughs?
Not a loaded question - just want to compare my own perception of the image with yours...
Thanks.