Posted on 07/11/2015 8:20:46 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Day by day, new images appear showing an ever clearer view of a world we inexplicably love. Call it a dwarf planet. Call it a planet. It’s the unknown, and we can’t help but be drawn there.
Pluto made history when it was discovered in 1930. In 2015, it’s doing it all over again. Check out the new geology peeping into view.I’m reminded of the early explorers who shoved off in wooden ships in search of land across the water. After a long and often perilous journey, the mists would finally clear and the dark outline of land take form in the distance. It’s been 9 1/2 years since our collective Pluto voyage began
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Today’s image release clearly shows a world growing more geologically diverse by the day.
“We’re close enough now that we’re just starting to see Pluto’s geology,” said New Horizons program scientist Curt Niebur, on NASA’s website. Niebur, who’s keenly interested in the gray area just above the whale’s “tail” feature, called it a “unique transition region with a lot of dynamic processes interacting, which makes it of particular scientific interest.”
(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...
Looks like an old golf ball fished out of a pond....Most likely a Titleist.
:-)
Very free, and easy.
Or Major Ed Danes.
A *very* remote viewing.
I go to WDW often because my wife is a Micky addict. While eating at a Disney restaurant one evening, Pluto showed up at our table. I asked Pluto how it felt to not be a planet anymore. He looked sad but his handler was pissed at me.
Say...can I have some of your purple berries?
Prob’ly keep us both alive.
Eventually. New Horizon's data transmission rate out by Pluto is just 2,000 bits per second. Which means it would take hours of transmission time to send just one high resolution image. The scientists want to use the real-time bandwidth to send back data rather than images.
The plan is for the spacecraft to take lots and lots of sharp images as it passes, and then transmit them afterwards.
lol
[after a long pause] Note: this topic is from . Thanks BenLurkin.
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I thought he died.
Rollin’, Rollin’, Rollin’, keep that planet Rollin’...
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