Video: Flyover of Pluto's majestic mountains and icy plains

[rangerrebew]

Video: Flyover of Pluto's majestic mountains and icy plains
July 17, 2017 by Bill Keeter
 

In July 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sent home the first close-up pictures of Pluto and its moons – amazing imagery that inspired many to wonder what a flight over the distant worlds' icy terrain might be like.

Wonder no more. Using actual New Horizons data and digital elevation models of Pluto and its largest moon Charon, mission scientists have created flyover movies that offer spectacular new perspectives of the many unusual features that were discovered and which have reshaped our views of the Pluto system – from a vantage point even closer than the spacecraft itself.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-07-video-flyover-pluto-majestic-mountains.html#jCp

[Ghost Bear]

The Pluto flyover:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1fPhhTT2Oo

The Charon flyover:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Q7O7TZ7Ks

Pretty amazing stuff!

[Cripplecreek]

Wish we had been able to put something in orbit there.

[Millee]

Amazing!

[Ghost Bear]

Wish we had been able to put something in orbit there.

I had the same thought!

[Sanguine]

Very cool!

[Joe Wooten]

I had the same thought!

Need a booster with more Ooommmph! to put a nuclear booster in orbit with a refueling facility. The Delta Vee required to put a good orbiter in Pluto orbit is big, and the time required to get there is too long in too cold an environment for either solid or liquid chemical rockets.