NASA releases first Pluto flyby images

FOX News ^ | July 15, 2015 | James Rogers

[UCANSEE2]

NASA has released the first images taken during New Horizons’ historic flyby of dwarf planet Pluto.(This is an excerpt).

[UCANSEE2]

Well, here they are. The first pictures close up of Pluto.

ICE MOUNTAINS, yahooooo!

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Already posted

[marron]

Ice means water. Water means oxygen.

Water, oxygen, hydrocarbons, basic building blocks of the universe. They are everywhere.

[smokingfrog]

The comments section is out of this world moronic.

[BenLurkin]

Heard on the science channel that it is taking more than 500 images and that they also will be transmitted back to earth over a period of many months.

Very cool stuff!

[Deagle]

Love your theories but where are those Plutoians? Surely we would have heard from by now..or from other planets that can support life. Anyway, capable of supporting life as we know it is not the same as life happens there.

Life seems to be a strange and wonderful event and have no idea about how and why it occurs - yet? I have theories and I’d bet that you do also but who knows - yet you and I will probably never know? Wonderful world though!

[Steely Tom]

Heard on the science channel that it is taking more than 500 images and that they also will be transmitted back to earth over a period of many months.

Apparently, New Horizon's total data rate back to Earth is currently about 1000 bits per second, or 125 bytes per second.

[UCANSEE2]

All I found was this related thread, but it didn't have the CLOSE UP pictures that are in the link I supplied. Which may explain why the title had (MAY NOT BE COMPLETE).

HERE IT IS! ALL THE PLUTO IMAGERY YOUR BRAIN NEARLY EXPLODED FROM CURIOSITY (MAY NOT BE COMPLETE)

[BenLurkin]

The left lives to hate.

[Steely Tom]

Oh, what am I talking about?

With all the error-correcting bits they undoubtedly have to add to the data stream, the actual data rate for usable data is probably way less than 125 bytes/sec.

[petenmi]

[servo1969]

[Jack Hydrazine]

Who’s going to be first to climb to the top of one of those mountains on Pluto?

[Moonman62]

Those Mountains mean Pluto could have nuclear generated heat coming from its core.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Water, oxygen, hydrocarbons, basic building blocks of the universe.

LIFE!

Plutonians!

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Stop trying to be funny

[ponygirl]

It sure looks like a planet to me.

[UCANSEE2]

Well.... I wasn’t trying to be funny. I was serious.

If you know of another thread that has these latest pictures, then post the link.

The more the merrier, as they say.

I just searched again and couldn’t find any other thread with those pictures.

[UCANSEE2]

All the controversy over Pluto being a planet is silly.

[UCANSEE2]