Geological Activity on Pluto Continues to Surprise Secular Planetologists

The celestial object known as Pluto, named after the Roman ruler of the underworld, is undoubtedly continuing to give dark thoughts to secular planetologists. Since they have shackled themselves to deep time and evolutionary mythology, actual observations continue to astonish them.

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We have a couple of articles about Pluto and its geology. (Did you think that geology only applied to there here planet we're camping on? Nope. Well, I did once, so I'll let that go.) In the first one, there is a serious possibility that Pluto once had an ocean. It could still be there in layers with rock and ice. Recent studies of geological features indicate ice activity, but they also cause confusion among secularists because what they observe indicates recent creation and not billions of years.

In the summer of 2015, the New Horizons mission provided the first photographs of surface details on Pluto. What those photos revealed was unexpected. Rather than showing a heavily cratered surface, the crater density was far less than expected, with some regions of Pluto having very few craters. Following the model used to interpret all other solid surfaces in the solar system, this indicated that Pluto’s surface is young. Such a young surface would require geological activity, and geological activity requires heat. But where would a relatively small body very far from the sun get that heat? In the intervening five years, there has been much discussion of how Pluto’s surface came to be.

To finish reading this first article, click on "Did Pluto Once Have an Ocean? Is It Young?" Don't forget to come back for the next one.

Landforms are sitting there quietly, then suddenly a change can cause a disturbance. For instance, a landslide. Pluto has had landslides, and water ice in addition to nitrogen are the likely culprits. Efforts to avoid giving plausible explanations as to why landslides would happen and why nitrogen is still there after billions of Darwin years are present. Reality is not. The earth, solar system, universe, everything was created recently, old son. That's why secularists are amazed then the data do not fit their presuppositions of cosmic evolution.

In 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft gave the world a first-ever chance to see the most distant planet in our solar system (granted that Pluto’s status as a planet is a matter of debate). The images were astonishing – not at all what planetary scientists expected for such a distant, cold, isolated body. Instead of an old surface pockmarked by ancient craters, the planet (and its large moon Charon) exhibited features that looked young! These included glaciers of frozen nitrogen, sharp jagged peaks and smooth plains devoid of craters, with sand dunes clearly evident.

Now, the planetary journal Icarus calls attention another group of features that apparently formed by rapid, catastrophic events – huge landslides lubricated by liquid nitrogen. O’Hara and Dombard write about “downhill sledding” that moved mountains. The highlights include these bullet points:

You can read the bullet points and the entire article by rocking on over to "Landslides on Pluto Happened Quickly".