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New Horizon's first of best images of Pluto


Merc14

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https://www.nasa.gov...images-of-pluto

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the first in a series of the sharpest views of Pluto it obtained during its July flyby – and the best close-ups of Pluto that humans may see for decades.

Each week the piano-sized New Horizons spacecraft transmits data stored on its digital recorders from its flight through the Pluto system on July 14. These latest pictures are part of a sequence taken near New Horizons’ closest approach to Pluto, with resolutions of about 250-280 feet (77-85 meters) per pixel – revealing features less than half the size of a city block on Pluto’s diverse surface. In these new images, New Horizons captured a wide variety of cratered, mountainous and glacial terrains.

“These close-up images, showing the diversity of terrain on Pluto, demonstrate the power of our robotic planetary explorers to return intriguing data to scientists back here on planet Earth,” said John Grunsfeld, former astronaut and associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. “New Horizons thrilled us during the July flyby with the first close images of Pluto, and as the spacecraft transmits the treasure trove of images in its onboard memory back to us, we continue to be amazed by what we see."

Much more to see at the link https://www.nasa.gov...images-of-pluto

Highest resolution here: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/mosaic-of-pluto-s-craters-mountains-and-glaciers

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Thanks for that.

Now we have a lot more stuff for the crackpots to study and pour over and look at and "find" proofs of their theories in.

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Thanks for that.

Now we have a lot more stuff for the crackpots to study and pour over and look at and "find" proofs of their theories in.

I saw "parrot glyph" there... Damn alienzzz... Edited by bmk1245
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It is a very bizarre landscape to say the least. The science teams must be like kids on Christmas morning and unbelievably, the best stuff is yet to come.

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It is a very bizarre landscape to say the least. The science teams must be like kids on Christmas morning and unbelievably, the best stuff is yet to come.

Thats for sure.
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Thats for sure.

:) Edited by Glockornothing
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It is a very bizarre landscape to say the least. The science teams must be like kids on Christmas morning and unbelievably, the best stuff is yet to come.

Lol are we allowed to say Christmas here :)
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Holy crap, I think I see General Zod, Ursa and Non flying over the surface of Pluto! That damn new Horizons probe must have ruptured the Phantom Zone and let them escape.

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Despite the politicians, dwindling resources, and a world in chaos, we have managed to visit our solar system. And, finally, Pluto, whose landscape is far more breathtaking than anything Hollywood has conceived. Will we elect to sustain our Age of Enlightenment and develop ourselves as a civilization on Mars.

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It's amazing that these images and data were beamed back 3 billion miles through space - that alone is a source of amazement -

and the quality of the high resolution images are simply remarkable. Pluto certainly is a fascinating little world.

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