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The 'creation' of life as explained via a billion years of reaching an ever increasing structural complexity is actually rather simple. It has to take such a long time because chemistry doesn't come with a 'plan', it's based on chance encounters. (If you have a good plan for a bank robbery, you can get rich soon. If you're waiting for chance, say the lottery, you're statistically going to have to wait much - much longer.) Furthermore, since a higher level of organisation decreases entropy, it makes perfect sense to start with proteins and then mitochondria before getting to, say, bacteria or people. You see, nature desires an increase in entropy (chaos) and life appears to defy that desire. That's OK, however, as long as you 'pay' the bill (like paying a fine when you have broken the law). The cosmic equivalent of money is energy. Thus, when sufficient energy is invested, a higher level of organisation is perfectly feasible. And so the tools for energy transfer are built first. Mitochondria are considered the oldest structures within a living cell.
With the molecular precursors for life now found in space (on the surface of comets and asteroids but also in interstellar clouds), there's even more of a reason for Creationism to lose ground fast. Personally, I find it neither insulting nor "unromantic" to accept that life wasn't guided into existence by a deity, rather I think the very facts of chemical chance, natural selection, evolution... enhance the beauty of it all. A computer built in a factory is nothing unique. A computer that would slowly evolve into existence in nature, now THAT would be AWESOME!
I wish that one day we'd find living bacteria on comets and asteroids. (In fact, haven't we already?) The FED's (Flat-Earth-Dummies) - which is what I call Creationists - will then have to agree that Earth is nothing special in the cosmos. Of course they would refute the evidence because a) many of them are insufficiently educated to grasp the evidence and b) they'd probably call it another conspiracy of science folk and a cheat. Like the Apollo missions. Some say we never went to the Moon, that it's all a hoax. By the way, there ARE mirrors on the Moon via which we constantly measure the distance between Earth and the Moon with lasers. Who put them there? The Phantom Villains? HA!
Anyway, I'm loving this. Organic molecules other than methane on a comet? Life is a cosmic game of chance, folks. I'm fine with calling it a divine gift. Just don't give me any of that six-days-from-zero-to-Adamo crap. Incidentally, is life a gift? Perhaps life elsewhere will take care of its host with more deference and respect than we are.
Honestly I think it's just similar to the moon- colorless
I'm sorry, but did you actually read the report on these pictures? The surface of Pluto is by far not similar to Luna...or, our Moon in common language:
I'll definitely go back and read though- interesting stuff!
In this small section of the larger crescent image of Pluto, the setting sun illuminates a fog or near-surface haze, which is cut by the parallel shadows of many local hills and small mountains.
Just 15 minutes after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft looked back toward the sun and captured a near-sunset view of the rugged, icy mountains and flat ice plains extending to Pluto's horizon. The smooth expanse of the informally named Sputnik Planum (right) is flanked to the west (left) by rugged mountains up to 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) high, including the informally named Norgay Montes in the foreground and Hillary Montes on the skyline. The backlighting highlights more than a dozen layers of haze in Pluto's tenuous but distended atmosphere. The image was taken from a distance of 11,000 miles (18,000 kilometers) to Pluto; the scene is 230 miles (380 kilometers) across.
Just 15 minutes after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft looked back toward the sun and captured this near-sunset view of the rugged, icy mountains and flat ice plains extending to Pluto's horizon. The smooth expanse of the informally named icy plain Sputnik Planum (right) is flanked to the west (left) by rugged mountains up to 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) high, including the informally named Norgay Montes in the foreground and Hillary Montes on the skyline. To the right, east of Sputnik, rougher terrain is cut by apparent glaciers. The backlighting highlights more than a dozen layers of haze in Pluto’s tenuous but distended atmosphere. The image was taken from a distance of 11,000 miles (18,000 kilometers) to Pluto; the scene is 780 miles (1,250 kilometers) wide.
Ice (probably frozen nitrogen) that appears to have accumulated on the uplands on the right side of this 390-mile (630-kilometer) wide image is draining from Pluto's mountains onto the informally named Sputnik Planum through the 2- to 5-mile (3- to 8- kilometer) wide valleys indicated by the red arrows. The flow front of the ice moving into Sputnik Planum is outlined by the blue arrows. The origin of the ridges and pits on the right side of the image remains uncertain.
Sputnik Planum is the informal name of the smooth, light-bulb shaped region on the left of this composite of several New Horizons images of Pluto. The brilliantly white upland region to the right may be coated by nitrogen ice that has been transported through the atmosphere from the surface of Sputnik Planum, and deposited on these uplands.
And this amazing shot is not a Photoshop edited composite. THIS is what New Horizons really saw. This shows how close Pluto and Charon are 'dancing' with each other. Also notice Pluto's blue atmosphere again:
And now you can see Pluto's atmosphere in color. And be astonished, because it has the same color as Earth's atmosphere:
And yesterday it has been made official. Pluto's has water ice...lots of it!
They literally stunn me. Seeing/reading all that negative news about immigrants, makes me wonder why we don't let ourselves astonish and awe anymore with these kind of discoveries. Those discoveries are from a human perspective truly good and inspirational.
Would love to see Bond going to Pluto.
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I must admit it looks like a photoshop image. ;-) But indeed, looks good. :)
From Mars Rover Curiosity and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter:
Frost on the North Pole Region of Mars:
Northern rim of Gale Crater on planet Mars:
Looking at Mount Sharp, inside Gale Crater, planet Mars:
A dune near Mount Sharp:
From the New Horizons probe at Pluto:
Close-up of Pluto's 'heart':
From the Dawn probe at Ceres:
Best view yet of the mysterious 'white spots' inside Occator Crater: