NASA Announces That Pluto Has Icebergs Floating On Glaciers of Nitrogen Ice (blastingnews.com)

MarkWhittington writes: The most recent finding from New Horizons show that icebergs have broken off from the hills surrounding the Sputnik Planum, a glacier of nitrogen ice, and are floating slowly across its surface, eventually to cluster together in places like the Challenger Colles, informally named after the crew of the space shuttle Challenger, which was lost just over 30 years ago. The feature is an especially high concentration of icebergs, measuring 37 by 22 miles. The icebergs float on the nitrogen ice plain because water ice is less dense than nitrogen ice.

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Re:Original NASA article

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The picture in the original NASA article to me shows arrangements like some chemical structures including perhaps fused rings. There is a nice hexagonal ring in the middle of the pic, much like a benzene ring, with some substitution. Do we have some kind of spontaneous formation of low energy structures here? All this is really neat.