{"id":7682,"date":"2016-03-29T09:35:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T13:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7682"},"modified":"2016-03-29T09:35:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T13:35:21","slug":"frozen-lakes-in-outer-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7682","title":{"rendered":"Frozen lakes in outer space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until recently, this used to be one of my favorite deep space images:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7683 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Triton-Ruach-Planitia-frozen-lake-Voyager-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Triton-Ruach-Planitia-frozen-lake-Voyager-2.jpg 580w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Triton-Ruach-Planitia-frozen-lake-Voyager-2-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Triton-Ruach-Planitia-frozen-lake-Voyager-2-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Triton-Ruach-Planitia-frozen-lake-Voyager-2-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Triton-Ruach-Planitia-frozen-lake-Voyager-2-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Triton-Ruach-Planitia-frozen-lake-Voyager-2-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Triton-Ruach-Planitia-frozen-lake-Voyager-2-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is a frozen lake in the Ruach Planitia region of Neptune&#8217;s Moon Triton: an incredibly distant, dark and desolate world.<\/p>\n<p>OK, the image is still one of my favorites, but on my list of favorites, it&#8217;s just been taken over by this one:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7688\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Pluto-Sputnik-Planum-lake-New-Horizons.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Pluto-Sputnik-Planum-lake-New-Horizons.jpg 634w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Pluto-Sputnik-Planum-lake-New-Horizons-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Pluto-Sputnik-Planum-lake-New-Horizons-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Pluto-Sputnik-Planum-lake-New-Horizons-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Pluto-Sputnik-Planum-lake-New-Horizons-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Pluto-Sputnik-Planum-lake-New-Horizons-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Pluto-Sputnik-Planum-lake-New-Horizons-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That, ladies and gentlemen, is a large (about 30 km) frozen lake (most likely frozen nitrogen), in the Sputnik Planum region of the planet Pluto.<\/p>\n<p>Who would have thought that Pluto, the recently demoted ex-planet, a frozen world at the edge of the solar system, would have such complex climate and such a fascinating geological history?<\/p>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7682' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until recently, this used to be one of my favorite deep space images: It is a frozen lake in the Ruach Planitia region of Neptune&#8217;s Moon Triton: an incredibly distant, dark and desolate world. 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