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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: headdie on February 05, 2010, 05:15:05 am

Title: News Flash Pluto is not just a ball of ice
Post by: headdie on February 05, 2010, 05:15:05 am
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100204/tsc-blushing-pluto-dwarf-planet-takes-on-e123fef.html
Title: Re: News Flash Pluto is not just a ball of ice
Post by: The E on February 05, 2010, 05:17:40 am
(http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/uu320/FabianW/poor-pluto-w1600.jpg)

Is that the revenge of Pluto?
Title: Re: News Flash Pluto is not just a ball of ice
Post by: Nuclear1 on February 05, 2010, 11:04:34 am
PLUTO SMASH!
Title: Re: News Flash Pluto is not just a ball of ice
Post by: watsisname on February 05, 2010, 02:52:54 pm
I love how Uranus is all crosseyed and lopsided in that pic. :lol:
Title: Re: News Flash Pluto is not just a ball of ice
Post by: Mongoose on February 05, 2010, 03:22:51 pm
The ***** of it is that we still have to wait a few more years until New Horizons gets out there and (hopefully) sends us back gobs of lovely high-resolution images and data.  Those Hubble pics are better than ones I've seen in the past, but it's still just an amorphous blob at the moment. :p
Title: Re: News Flash Pluto is not just a ball of ice
Post by: headdie on February 05, 2010, 03:40:32 pm
The ***** of it is that we still have to wait a few more years until New Horizons gets out there and (hopefully) sends us back gobs of lovely high-resolution images and data.  Those Hubble pics are better than ones I've seen in the past, but it's still just an amorphous blob at the moment. :p

I think the article mentions that Hubble has recently finished its  :( final :( upgrade so probably as a result of that
Title: Re: News Flash Pluto is not just a ball of ice
Post by: Mongoose on February 05, 2010, 10:53:29 pm
No, these pictures are apparently from back in 2002 or so and have had a few years of image-enhancement algorithms applied to them.  The new hardware might provide slightly-better data, but there's only so much that Hubble can see of such a small object located so far away.
Title: Re: News Flash Pluto is not just a ball of ice
Post by: The E on February 05, 2010, 11:26:26 pm
'You mean, an object that is so near :P
Title: Re: News Flash Pluto is not just a ball of ice
Post by: Mongoose on February 05, 2010, 11:50:00 pm
Depends what you're relating to what. :p
Title: Re: News Flash Pluto is not just a ball of ice
Post by: DeepSpace9er on February 07, 2010, 10:15:32 pm
The ***** of it is that we still have to wait a few more years until New Horizons gets out there and (hopefully) sends us back gobs of lovely high-resolution images and data.  Those Hubble pics are better than ones I've seen in the past, but it's still just an amorphous blob at the moment. :p

We need FTL or other uber fast technology.. yesterday! 2015 is too long to wait.