I recently learned this is a reason for why it seem to be so quiet after it snows: a couple of inches of snow can absorb as much as 60 percent of sound.
Pluto, has an eerie symphony of sounds, which we can hear thanks to NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft.
Pluto is also covered with snow and ice and I can’t help but to wonder if that makes this small world just a little more spookier then it seemed to be before I learned about snow and sound.
In this digital painting, Pluto is depicted as a world of ice in many forms. Its surface shows mountains of rock, thought to be super-cold water ice, and vast fields of carbon dioxide, ammonia, nitrogen, and carbon monoxide snows. Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, composed of the same materials, looms large in the sky.
This illustration is based on images and data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft currently exploring the outer reaches of our Solar System.
Image Credit: K.B. Kofoed
INSPIRED BY WORD PRESS PROMPT: WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU LEARNED.
