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NASA's New Horizons Probe Gives Us Our First Look at the 'Person in Pluto'
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| Jun 22 2015, 1:37 pm ET
| Alan Boyle
Posted on 06/22/2015 6:24:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Humanity has looked up to the "Man in the Moon" for millennia, but this could be one of our first views of the "Person in Pluto."
The views are getting better and better as NASA's New Horizons spacecraft approaches Pluto for its July 14 flyby — and the pictures have begun revealing surface details. Ian Regan, an image-processing enthusiast from Plymouth, England, combined four images from New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager with color data from the probe's Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera to produce an eerie colorized view of Pluto and its biggest moon, Charon.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: astronomy; newhorizons; planets; pluto; solarsystem
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A combination of imagery from the LORRI and MVIC imagers on NASA's New Horizons probe provides a colorized view of Pluto (top) and its largest moon, Charon (bottom). NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI / Ian Regan
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posted on
06/22/2015 6:24:00 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: SunkenCiv
Maybe for your APOD list?
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posted on
06/22/2015 6:25:34 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Wait a minute.....
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posted on
06/22/2015 6:25:59 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
To: cripplecreek
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
06/22/2015 6:28:14 PM PDT
by
FreedomStar3028
(Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
To: FreedomStar3028
Its a construction shack.
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posted on
06/22/2015 6:29:36 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
To: BenLurkin
I am so excited! I have been waiting to see what my favorite (then) planet looks like since I was 8. :)
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posted on
06/22/2015 6:30:16 PM PDT
by
Politicalkiddo
("Woe to you lawyers as well! For you weigh men down with burdens hard to bear..."- Luke 11:46)
To: cripplecreek
Oh pleazzze stop it..../s
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posted on
06/22/2015 6:31:01 PM PDT
by
mosesdapoet
(Some of my best rebuttals are in FR's along with meaningless venting no one reads.)
To: BenLurkin
Sheila Jackson Lee is wondering if the Pluto rover can find the flag Neil Armstrong planted there.
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posted on
06/22/2015 6:31:20 PM PDT
by
Veggie Todd
(The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
To: mosesdapoet
Could be worse.
Could be a guard tower.
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posted on
06/22/2015 6:31:48 PM PDT
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cripplecreek
(Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
06/22/2015 6:32:35 PM PDT
by
FreedomStar3028
(Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
To: Billthedrill
"I've got a bad feeling about this ..."
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posted on
06/22/2015 6:33:08 PM PDT
by
SecondAmendment
(Restoring our Republic at 9.8357x10^8 FPS)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
06/22/2015 6:33:16 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
But what kind of probe does it take to get a closer look at Uranus?
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posted on
06/22/2015 6:36:26 PM PDT
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Oberon
(John 12:5-6)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
06/22/2015 6:37:42 PM PDT
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ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: ETL
15 is a view from Pluto’s moon...
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posted on
06/22/2015 6:39:13 PM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: Oberon
You don’t want to go there ...
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posted on
06/22/2015 6:39:56 PM PDT
by
Ken522
To: cripplecreek
Obviously Borg.
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posted on
06/22/2015 6:43:51 PM PDT
by
kitchen
(The people on the left are enemies, not countrymen with different opinions.)
To: Ken522
I heard it has a methane atmosphere.
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posted on
06/22/2015 6:45:56 PM PDT
by
Oberon
(John 12:5-6)
To: kitchen
Then we need to grab control of the transwarp conduit.
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06/22/2015 6:46:43 PM PDT
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cripplecreek
(Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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