Figure 1
Pluto and the crystals structures of two of its most important minerals. (a) Photographic image of Pluto taken by the New Horizons spacecraft (Source: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Alex Parker. Published: July 23, 2018). (b, c) Crystal structures of β-nitrogen(Streib et al., 1962, Press et al., 1982) and methane I(Press, 1972) shown with random orientations of the N2 and CH4 molecules, and using 3×3×2 and 2×2×2 supercells, respectively. |