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Four spots or stripes?
Jul 12, 2015 23:31
Everyone keeps talking about the four dark spots on Pluto. Is it just me, or is it more like a single dark region overlain by lighter stripes?
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ellarien
July 12 2015, 22:52:50 UTC
It's a Rorschach test the size of a (dwarf) planet -- and I gather that's the best view we're going to get of those features, as the closest approach will be on the other side. Cue a crop of PhD theses in image processing wizardry ...
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