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To: BenLurkin

Still slightly blurry. Will there be sharper images?


5 posted on 07/11/2015 8:29:56 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( "Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: SkyDancer

Yes. Remember, these images are the best that we have had of Pluto to date.


9 posted on 07/11/2015 8:34:17 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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20 posted on 07/11/2015 10:32:19 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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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.

30 posted on 07/11/2015 11:05:42 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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