Coleta de Dados Colles

The Coleta de Dados Colles are a cluster of hills ("colles") on the smooth plains of Sputnik Planitia on Pluto.[1] The hills are over 100 km from the major mountain ranges to the west (such as Zheng He Montes), and appear to be blocks of water ice floating in the denser nitrogen ice of Sputnik Planitia. [2] The hills were informally named on July 28, 2015, by the research team of the New Horizons mission after the first Brazilian satellite, the Satélite de Coleta de Dados ("Satellite for Data Collecting" in Portuguese).[3] The ridge's name has yet to be recognized officially by the IAU.

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Location of the Coleta de Dados Colles on the dwarf planet Pluto
Feature typeHills
LocationWestern Sputnik Planitia, Pluto
DiscovererNew Horizons
NamingSatélite de Coleta de Dados
Coleta de Dados Colles (right)

References

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  1. ^ Staff (28 July 2015). "Informal Names for the Features on Pluto and Charon". SETI Institute. Archived from the original on 3 August 2018. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  2. ^ White, Oliver L.; Moore, Jeffrey M.; McKinnon, William B.; et al. (May 2017). "Geological mapping of Sputnik Planitia on Pluto". Icarus. 287: 261–286. Bibcode:2017Icar..287..261W. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2017.01.011.
  3. ^ Nogueira, Salvador (4 December 2021). "Um satélite brasileiro em Plutão". Mensageiro Sideral (in Portuguese). Retrieved 6 April 2024.