New Horizons Sees Pluto's Moon Hydra

[Waspie_Dwarf]

New Horizons Makes its First Detection of Pluto’s Moon Hydra

Using its Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), New Horizons made its first detection of Pluto's small, faint, outermost known moon, Hydra. The images were taken to practice the long-exposure mosaics that the New Horizons team will use to search for additional moons and potentially hazardous debris near Pluto as the spacecraft approaches the Pluto system in May and June 2015.

Analysis of those images in September by Science Team members John Spencer, of the Southwest Research Institute, and Hal Weaver, of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, revealed Hydra —a moon the mission didn’t expect to detect until next January, when New Horizons will be about twice as close as it was in July.

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[bubblykiss]

I like more color and fantasy infused into my science...can you repost with this moon being circumnavigated by anthropomorphic lizards riding dinosaur-motorcycles while blasting plasma cannons into the endless the nightmarish void of the outer solar system painted in gaudy and vivid colors?

[Waspie_Dwarf]

I like more color and fantasy infused into my science...can you repost with this moon being circumnavigated by anthropomorphic lizards riding dinosaur-motorcycles while blasting plasma cannons into the endless the nightmarish void of the outer solar system painted in gaudy and vivid colors?

I like sensible, factual conversations with my science. Seems we are both going to be disappointed.

[taniwha]

Lets hope the close ups wont be as smudgy.