Largest Moon of Pluto Defies Deep Time

It is very interesting to watch how space probes have developed over the years, with New Horizons being extremely impressive. Consider that timing and trajectory had to be precise so it could do its flyby of Pluto after a trip of 9-1/2 years. New Horizons sent back quite a bit of information.

Regular readers of this and other sites by biblical creationists have seen how information from Pluto and its five moons has frustrated deep time expectations. It was revealed that the moon Charon had features baffling to mainstream scientists.

Charon, moon of Pluto, NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI (usage does not imply endorsement of site contents)

Just a brief ride on a side trail here. There has been a Greek mythology thing happening, as Pluto was their god of the underworld. The dead were taken across the river Styx (I betcha thought Styx meant "middle of nowhere") which is the name of another of Pluto's moons. Charon in mythology is pronounced with a hard K sound, and is the Styx ferryman that you don't pay until he gets you to the other side. The discoverer of that moon wanted the name but with an SH sound similar to the name Sharon.

Okay, we're back to the main trail. There should be more craters on Share-ON. Where are they? Using the tried-and-true principle of Making Things Up™ in the secular science industry, there is speculation that it was resurfaced by volcanic activity. Not liquid hot magma, but from cold stuff in oceans. No evidence, but hey, Pluto has cryovolcanoes, why not Charon? Simply put, that moon, Pluto, and so many other things that do not "look their age" are not the results of cosmic evolution, but were in fact created recently — which evidence continues to affirm.

When the New Horizons space probe captured images of Pluto and its large moon Charon as it flew by in 2015, conventional scientists were surprised by the small number of craters in Charon’s southern hemisphere.1 This suggested a relatively young surface, despite Charon’s presumed age of over four billion years. How could they account for this?

Theorists proposed that a subsurface ocean developed on Charon billions of years ago. The large plain Vulcan Planitia was then repaved by cryovolcanism, “ice volcano” activity that erupts with gases and materials like water and ammonia rather than with lava.2 They suggested that the heat released by the freezing of that ocean could have powered this geological resurfacing. So, although tiny and distant Charon is presumably cold and dead today, theorists think it might have been warmer in the distant past.

Continue reading at "Pluto’s Largest Moon Looks Young."