Pluto - The Heart

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SPACE TRAVEL POSTER - 056/060
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THE PROJECT
Space tourism is still a long ways off, but it’s not hard to imagine that someday, tourists will visit the natural geological landmarks of other worlds much like they tour the Grand Canyon, Mount Everest or Ayers Rock. Each of these great tourist destinations needs a classic retro travel poster to entice visitors. Until the day people settle off world and make their own destinations many of these may be the places that people will want to travel too. I hope that these posters can inspire people to think beyond our world to the limitless possibilities of the Universe.

THE HEART
Tombaugh Regio nicknamed The Heart after its shape, is the largest bright surface feature of the dwarf planet Pluto. It is just north of the equator, to the northeast of Cthulhu Regio and to the northwest of Krun Macula, both dark features. Its western lobe, a 1000-km-wide plain of nitrogen and other ices, is named Sputnik Planum. The eastern lobe is thought to consist of high-albedo uplands coated by nitrogen transported through the atmosphere from Sputnik Planum, and then deposited as ice. Some of this nitrogen ice then returns to Sputnik Planum via glacial flow.