Reply To: What if?

[SteveInCO]

Total solar eclipses wouldn’t be nearly as magnificent, either.

It’s difficult in the extreme to imagine life evolving on Pluto’s surface (it absolutely would not have any kind of biochemistry) but there is a significant chance that it once had an under-the-ice ocean like Europa does, given that before Pluto/Chiron became tidally locked the heating generated must have been intense (and there is also some effect from radioactive decay.

In fact, the article I was reading, several months old, raised the possibility that that under-ice liquid layer might still exist! Alas, no chance any critters under there would ever see Charon unless they evolved to intelligence and were able to mount an expedition to the surface.