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Re: New Horizons Pluto Close Flyby - July 14, 2015
*gorgeous picture*

Man it'd be so awesome if we can actually get that level of image quality from the probe...

 

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Re: New Horizons Pluto Close Flyby - July 14, 2015
So now there's a really high-resolution color photo of Pluto where you can really see the surface texture, as well as the dark and bright areas:

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Re: New Horizons Pluto Close Flyby - July 14, 2015
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I didn't even know we had that tag. :O
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Re: New Horizons Pluto Close Flyby - July 14, 2015
Someone had to get it right, it was a statistical necessity. Still!


 

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Re: New Horizons Pluto Close Flyby - July 14, 2015
Wow!

 

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Re: New Horizons Pluto Close Flyby - July 14, 2015
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Re: New Horizons Pluto Close Flyby - July 14, 2015
Been thinking about Charon, which is somewhere that intrigued me as a child, because only Earth has a similar 'huge moon' system (compared to the parent planet).

Scientists seemed quite excited at the difference in appearance between Pluto and Charon, but thinking about it, that seems to be the norm for the solar system, the rarity seems to be moons that resemble their parent planet in some way. Besides considering Plutos size and position, it's entirely possible that Charon was a Kuiper Belt object that got caught in the gravity well. The outer solar system had a pretty busy post-starbirth life, I'd be surprised if Pluto could hang onto a natural moon that size for that long in that environment.

In many ways Earth is the odd one out, not only is it a giant-moon system, but the moon is natural and produced from Earth-rock via a massive post-accretion impact. I'd be surprised if that sort of thing often produced a near-stable system like our own with smaller planets.
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Re: New Horizons Pluto Close Flyby - July 14, 2015
Get off my lawn, probe!
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Re: New Horizons Pluto Close Flyby - July 14, 2015
whut the f.. where the **** have you been for the last... 9 years? why the **** are you crashing Pluto's party?
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Re: New Horizons Pluto Close Flyby - July 14, 2015


Man, the stream guy is ****ing ridiculous, but still:

http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv

 

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Re: New Horizons Pluto Close Flyby - July 14, 2015
the heart is right there :)
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Re: New Horizons Pluto Close Flyby - July 14, 2015
Nope, don't see any Garmillas
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Re: New Horizons Pluto Close Flyby - July 14, 2015
OH MY GOOOD


 

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Re: New Horizons Pluto Close Flyby - July 14, 2015
oh you are ****ting me

 
Re: New Horizons Pluto Close Flyby - July 14, 2015
Coincidence, or is nature/aliens trolling us?
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Re: New Horizons Pluto Close Flyby - July 14, 2015
Nah, just Buster Machine 7. She's a robot.

 

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Re: New Horizons Pluto Close Flyby - July 14, 2015
Well, it survived the flyby, which is good news, looking forward to seeing what data it collected during its closest phase.

 

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Re: New Horizons Pluto Close Flyby - July 14, 2015
Double Post, but I felt it worthy, the first close-ups are in :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33543383

Looks incredible, it's as much a testament to the speed of improvement in imaging tech as space exploration. Most interesting discovery of the day so far, it appears that icy worlds don't need to be caught in tidal gravity forces to be geologically active.

 

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Re: New Horizons Pluto Close Flyby - July 14, 2015
Charon


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