When to Use the Sputnik Planitia 3D Explorer - Best Sessions and Limits
freetoolonline.com Editorial Team
Open Sputnik Planitia 3D Explorer when you want to see why part of Pluto's surface looks young and nearly crater-free, or to teach how solid nitrogen ice can flow like a very slow glacier - not to run a fluid-dynamics simulation or see individual real convection cells mapped one-to-one from New Horizons imagery.
A convection-cycle lesson
A lesson starts at 0% and scrubs the convective-cycle slider to 100% to watch cells rise, brighten, sink, and darken through one full overturn, then presses "Highlight troughs" to call out the narrow boundaries between cells.
Sessions this explorer does not fit
Sessions this page does not fit are following the 2015 flyby mission itself - use the New Horizons Pluto Flyby 3D Explorer for that - or exploring the orbital dance between Pluto and its largest moon - use the Pluto-Charon Double Planet 3D Explorer. Walk the controls in the step-by-step guide.
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