Climate Zones On Pluto
The climate of Pluto concerns the atmospheric dynamics, weather, and long-term trends on the dwarf planet Pluto. Five climate zones are assigned on the dwarf planet: tropics, arctic, tropical arctic, diurnal, and Geographical pole, polar. These climate zones are delineated based on astronomically defined boundaries or Subsolar point, sub-solar latitudes, which are not associated with the atmospheric circulations on the dwarf planet. Charon (moon), Charon, the largest moon of Pluto, is tidal locking, tidally locked with it, and thus has the same climate zone structure as Pluto itself. Pluto is an icy body, the most prominent object in the solar system's Kuiper belt. Its surface is primarily composed of methane (CH4), nitrogen (N2), and carbon monoxide (CO) Volatile (astrogeology), volatile ices in various spatial abundances and distribution. Though Pluto is small compared to typical planets, it has an atmosphere of Pluto, atmosphere, though much thinner than Earth's. Containing mult ...
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