Scientists Captivated By Pluto’s Emerging Geological Wonders

universetoday.com ^ | on July 10, 2015 | Bob King

[Larry Lucido]

Someone who looks just like this is on Pluto telling fellow Plutonians "I'm not saying it's Earthlings, but it's Earthlings."

[Hot Tabasco]

Looks like an old golf ball fished out of a pond....Most likely a Titleist.

[NorthMountain]

[Larry Lucido]

:-)

[MUDDOG]

early explorers who shoved off in wooden ships

Very free, and easy.

[MUDDOG]

Or Major Ed Danes.

A *very* remote viewing.

[waredbird]

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.

[BenLurkin]

Say...can I have some of your purple berries?

[MUDDOG]

Prob’ly keep us both alive.

[PapaBear3625]

Still slightly blurry. Will there be sharper images?

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.

[DannyTN]

lol

[Rodamala]

[SunkenCiv]

[after a long pause] Note: this topic is from 7/11/2015. Thanks BenLurkin.

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[rdl6989]

I thought he died.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

[SunkenCiv]

Rollin’, Rollin’, Rollin’, keep that planet Rollin’...