Posted on 08/06/2015 3:51:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: These two detailed, true color images of Pluto were captured during the historic New Horizons flyby last month. With slightly different perspectives on the now recognizeable surface features they are presented in this first high quality stereo pair intended for viewing by denizens of planet Earth. The left hand image (left eye) is a mosaic recorded when the spacecraft was about 450,000 kilometers from Pluto. The right single image was acquired earlier, a last full look before the spacecraft's closest approach. Despite a difference in resolution, the pair combine for a stunning 3D perception of the distant, underworldly terrain.
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[Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins University/APL, Southwest Research Institute; Stereo Assembly: Brian May]
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"To Pluto And Far Beyond" By David H. Levy, Parade, January 15, 2006 -- We don't have a dictionary definition yet that includes all the contingencies. In the wake of the new discovery, however, the International Astronomical Union has set up a group to develop a workable definition of planet. For our part, in consultation with several experienced planetary astronomers, Parade offers this definition: A planet is a body large enough that, when it formed, it condensed under its own gravity to be shaped like a sphere. It orbits a star directly and is not a moon of another planet. |
I knew the pics would come in slow but this crap is agonizing.
“Stereo Pluto”?
No one can afford the speaker wires.
lol
No wires, PluTooth.
It’s a 2 kbit/s connection to Pluto and they have to get 50 GB of data down. And you thought FR could get slow. ;)
Note the credit on Stereo Assembly. Yes it’s *that* Brian May, from Queen. He visited with the team shortly after closest approach to work on stereoscopic images and dust data.
Nice of him. It’s surprising that he didn’t try to put together an academic boycott of the New Horizons mission because it was going to knock a big hole in the dust ring.
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