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.
 Location of the Coleta de Dados Colles on the dwarf planet Pluto | |
| Feature type | Hills |
|---|---|
| Location | Western Sputnik Planitia, Pluto |
| Discoverer | New Horizons |
| Naming | Satélite de Coleta de Dados |
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Nogueira, Salvador (4 December 2021). "Um satélite brasileiro em Plutão". Mensageiro Sideral (in Portuguese). Retrieved 6 April 2024.
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