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This Is the Best Look at Pluto's Surface We're Going to Get
« on: June 01, 2016, 12:58:57 am »
This Is the Best Look at Pluto's Surface We're Going to Get

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New Horizons may be millions of miles beyond Pluto in the Kuiper Belt right now, but that hasn’t stopped the spacecraft from continuing to beam back glorious imagery of its encounter with our solar system’s weirdest little ice world. A new NASA video reveals the most detailed images of Pluto’s surface yet—and they’re spellbinding.

The video below stitches together all of the highest-resolution images captured by New Horizons as it zipped past Pluto on July 14th, 2015. From a distance of 9,850 miles (15,850 kilometers), the spacecraft’s Long Range Reconnaissance Imager achieved a resolution of 260 feet (80 meters) per pixel across a 55 mile-wide strip of the dwarf planet’s encounter hemisphere. From cratered uplands to craggy badlands to blocky plains of nitrogen ice, Pluto’s rugged and diverse surface pops to life as if you’re cruising overhead in a helicopter.


Video Source: NASA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEdvyrKokX4
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Re: This Is the Best Look at Pluto's Surface We're Going to Get
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2016, 06:28:53 am »
Our solar system is such a dump. Sad!
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Re: This Is the Best Look at Pluto's Surface We're Going to Get
« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2016, 01:16:38 pm »
Nice. Good post.
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Re: This Is the Best Look at Pluto's Surface We're Going to Get
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2016, 07:34:28 pm »
Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on June 01, 2016, 06:28:53 am
Our solar system is such a dump. Sad!

Yeah, I want the Martian canals and Venusian swamps..........
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Re: This Is the Best Look at Pluto's Surface We're Going to Get
« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2016, 05:50:57 am »
Between Jupiter this week and these Pluto pictures I feel like I'm in heaven.

Or close to it.

Thank you for posting. :)
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Re: This Is the Best Look at Pluto's Surface We're Going to Get
« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2016, 11:45:25 am »
Certainly the best look we're going to get for a while.

Need better faster propulsion that doesn't require tons of fuel required to insert a probe into orbit.

For now we've got the Juno probe that will be revealing Jupiter's secrets.
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