# @nasaartemis on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BQI0QIFDIPS
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15345924-nasaartemis-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/e5513d3f8a.jpg
- **Posted:** 2017-02-05T17:09:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

## Caption

We have really cool piece of conceptual art to share today. Pluto is a world of varied terrain; vast snow fields, broken badlands, and towering mountains. Even when bathed in the light of the distant sun, temperatures rarely top a -300 degrees Fahrenheit. This speculative painting depicts a conical mound where gas, warmed by tidal pressures caused by its moon, Charon, rises to the surface contributing to a thin atmosphere and haze that hugs the ground. Some gas condenses at its rim forming a bluish cap of ice and nitrogen snow.

Source: K.B. Kofoed

#NASA #Pluto #artistconcept #graphicart #spaceart #sundayfunday

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graphicart, spaceart, nasa, pluto, sundayfunday, artistconcept

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