Explanation:
Given some poetic license, there is now scientific evidence that
hell
has frozen over.
To start, Greek mythology holds that
Charon is the ferryman
of the underworld.
Next, recent analysis of data taken by the
robotic New Horizons spacecraft
that shot past
Charon -- the namesake that is the largest moon of
Pluto -- in July now indicates that the
cause of the huge chasm that runs across the
1200-km moon
was that a huge internal sea froze.
And since water expands when
it freezes,
the already hardened outer crust could not contain it and cracked.
To better picture the crack, a fanciful journey over some of Charon's has been digitally
created from collected images.
The featured video
starts by showing the
Dark Polar Deposit (dubbed
Mordor) near Charon's north pole
and then flies over the
dwarf-planet-wide
canyon.
Last, the video shows a much-debated protuberance called
Moated Mountain.
Understanding the history of
Pluto and Charon is helping
humanity to better understand both the
friendliest and more
forbidding places in the
early
Solar System from which
Earth formed and
life
somehow emerged.
