NASA's New Horizons Probe Gives Us Our First Look at the 'Person in Pluto'

nbc ^ | Jun 22 2015, 1:37 pm ET | Alan Boyle

[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.

[kitchen]

Relax. We’ve got 300 years.P<>

[outofsalt]

"But(t) what kind of probe does it take to get a closer look at Uranus?"

[alpo]

Looks like Pluto may soon be known as Caitlyn.

[Jack Hammer]

No jokes about Mickey or Donald.

[Talisker]

What the heck are those giant lumps? Pluto is about 1400 miles across, those lumps are therefore about 200 miles across, gigantic for such a small planet.

[minnesota_bound]

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[alexander_busek]

What the heck are those giant lumps? Pluto is about 1400 miles across, those lumps are therefore about 200 miles across, gigantic for such a small planet.

They aren't lumps. They are dark areas (like lunar maria).

Regards,

[Talisker]

They aren't lumps. They are dark areas (like lunar maria).

Nonsense, they're plainly 3-D, they have a bright side!

[SunkenCiv]

Nice, it’s a happy face! Thanks BenLurkin.

[left that other site]

Why Zank you, Herr Doktor! :-)

[Textide]

I don’t know, but this is exciting stuff. To think that within the next month we’ll have close-ups is remarkable!

[mitch5501]

I’m with you on that.Been looking forward to this for a long time.Those surface features sure look tantalizing!

[Red Badger]

[Red Badger]

They have a lot of them in SF............................