[Credit: NASA, JPL; Processed Image Copyright: Ted Stryk]
That’s a pretty cool one.
It looks like a Star Trek TOS planet.
That’s pretty cool.
Too bad we don’t have a probe that can stop and hang out for a while as opposed to one travelling 14000 MPH past the thing.
What is the one heading to Pluto, New Horizons?
Let me check.......
Yup, From NASA.gov...
In 2006, NASA dispatched an ambassador to the planetary frontier: The New Horizons spacecraft, now more than halfway between Earth and Pluto, is on approach for a dramatic flight past the icy dwarf planet and its moons in July 2015....
Another flyby.
I understand the speed these things are traveling at but it’s too bad that after all it took to get there that we cannot or will not put something into orbit around these outer planets.