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These four images were taken at different times during Pluto's rotational period of 6.4 days -- on June 2, June 1, May 31 and May 29, from left to right. The central longitudes are 17 degrees, 63 degrees, 130 degrees and 243 degrees, respectively. New Horizons' LORRI imager took the pictures at distances ranging from 31 million miles to 34 million miles. NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI
1 posted on 06/11/2015 6:40:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: SunkenCiv

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounter/

LORRI Images from the Pluto Encounter
(displayed in raw form without special stretching)

Welcome to the New Horizons image site, where NASA and the New Horizons mission are happy to provide these JPEG images - displayed in raw form without special processing - for the public to use and enjoy. These JPEGs of images taken by the LOng Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) are generally posted within 48 hours after receipt at the New Horizons Science Operations Center. The date/time listed in the image caption is when the picture was taken by the spacecraft, though receipt of the data on Earth could be many days later, depending on when the image is downloaded from New Horizons.


2 posted on 06/11/2015 6:43:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

That’s it?

Will they get better?


3 posted on 06/11/2015 6:43:31 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: BenLurkin

Looks like it has an udder.


6 posted on 06/11/2015 6:45:53 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: BenLurkin

Still too fuzzy. Will there be sharper ones as the probe gets closer?


11 posted on 06/11/2015 6:49:28 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: BenLurkin

There’s a face of a guy with a Stalin mustache in the first pic, or am I seeing things? :)


13 posted on 06/11/2015 6:53:28 PM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: BenLurkin

There are no black people there...so obviously Pluto is racist.


15 posted on 06/11/2015 6:57:23 PM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: BenLurkin

canoli on Pluto? .. wow.


19 posted on 06/11/2015 7:07:18 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: BenLurkin

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29 posted on 06/11/2015 7:32:38 PM PDT by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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To: BenLurkin

It’d be nice if New Horizons could hang around out there for awhile, like Cassini @ Saturn.


30 posted on 06/11/2015 7:50:34 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: BenLurkin

“Pluto’s rotational period of 6.4 days”

You Earthlings ... always comparing things to your odd planet.
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32 posted on 06/11/2015 8:04:56 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: BenLurkin

Looks the same as last week


36 posted on 06/11/2015 9:23:52 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: BenLurkin
Maybe those are Schiaparelli's photos of Mars.
43 posted on 06/12/2015 6:09:03 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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