Posted on 07/03/2015 2:49:28 PM PDT by lbryce
This is the first movie created by New Horizons to reveal color surface features of Pluto and its largest moon Charon. “It’s a bit unusual to see so much surface detail at this distance,” said New Horizons co-investigator William McKinnon of the Geology and Geophysics Investigation Team, Washington University in Saint Louis. “What’s especially noteworthy is the level of detail in both bodies. It’s certainly whetting our appetite for what’s to come.”
The images were taken between June 23 and June 29, 2015, as New Horizons’ distance to Pluto decreased from a distance of 15 million to 11 million miles (24 million to 18 million kilometers). Six high-resolution black-and-white images from New Horizons’ LORRI instrument were combined with color data from the Ralph instrument to produce the movie.
(Excerpt) Read more at nasa.gov ...
Pluto calling ping
Wonder if we could use some of that technology to build a fence...
Nah
A significant number of Free Republic posters will tell you that fences do not work.
Coincidentally they supported candidates in the past couple elections that refused to even discuss stopping illegal immigration in any significant manner.
Gee...what are the odds of THAT I wonder.
Oh wow.
Speechless.
Thank you thank you thank you for finding this.
How close will the probe get to Pluto?
“First Movie pf Pluto”
I thought this was a Disney thread
Sense of Humor:Enabled
Thanks lbryce, extra to APoD.
http://spaceexp.tumblr.com/post/122076815463/pluto-and-its-moon-charon-now-in-color
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