I knew this strange, grey world was not my own,
But Yuggoth, past the starry voids
H.P. Lovecraft: Fungi from Yuggoth
What does it mean when scientists say, Charon was more than seven times larger in Pluto's sky than the Moon is in the sky of Earth? This direct comparison takes the very same setting on Earth, in Antarctica, and in the lower image relocates it into the Western "tail" of the Cthulhu Regio where Charon is still low above the horizon.
In chapter 7 of "Pluto & Charon - The New Horizons spacecraft at the farthest worldly shores", the scene shown in the lower image is described like this:
What
a sight would that be if Captain Future steered his spaceship down to
the Sputnik Planum and headed westwards? On his ship races above the
inviting broad nitrogen surface; then he is forced to pull steeply up
when the icy islands of Baré Montes and the coastal line rising thousands of metres high behind come
into view. Soon, the infinitely sombre ridges of the Cthulhu Regio
march along beneath the ship. Just here and there, fresh ice glaciers
flash on peaks like dewdrops. Faint sunlight just about manages to
reveal the colour of the soil. it is dyed with dimly red tholin: a
battlefield flooded under clotted blood, Yuggoth rather than Pluto.
Suddenly an ashen dome looms forth behind the mountains. It grows to a
disk and eventually withdraws from the western horizon, hugely blown up.
This is Charon, Pluto’s repulsive brother. Seven times wider than
Earth’s full moon it creeps up the sky, and no man in the moon smiles
down from there. Ghastly is indeed the light cast by this dreadful
orbiting giant. Not just dead it looks but murdered: Deep chasms cleft
it apart from one side to another like a skull cloven by an axe. As if
the blood from Cthulhu’s battlelands had gushed so high that it even
stained the satellite, another clotted spot spreads twilight-red across
its apex: a Death-star that Lovecraft himself must have made up!
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