Tag: Spiky Terrain

An example of the penitentes from the southern end of the Chajnantor plain in Chile. Though these ice formations only reach a few feet in height, while Pluto’s bladed terrain reaches hundreds of feet, they both have similar sharp ridges. Credits: Wikimedia Commons/ESO

Pluto’s Gigantic Spiky Blades of Ice – Their Origin Explained

MessageToEagle.com | September 27, 2017

MessageToEagle.com – Strange gigantic knife-like blades of ice detected on Pluto are among discoveries made by NASA’s New Horizons mission, during its flyby in July 2015. The coldest and