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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

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
1 posted on 06/22/2015 6:24:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: SunkenCiv

Maybe for your APOD list?


2 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.)
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To: BenLurkin
Wait a minute.....


3 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)
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To: cripplecreek

That’s no moon...


4 posted on 06/22/2015 6:28:13 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: cripplecreek

That’s no Death Star.


5 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.)
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To: FreedomStar3028

Its a construction shack.


6 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)
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To: BenLurkin

I am so excited! I have been waiting to see what my favorite (then) planet looks like since I was 8. :)


7 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)
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To: cripplecreek

Oh pleazzze stop it..../s


8 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.)
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To: BenLurkin

Sheila Jackson Lee is wondering if the Pluto rover can find the flag Neil Armstrong planted there.


9 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)
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To: mosesdapoet

Could be worse.

Could be a guard tower.


10 posted on 06/22/2015 6:31:48 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: cripplecreek

For?


11 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.)
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To: Billthedrill
"I've got a bad feeling about this ..."
12 posted on 06/22/2015 6:33:08 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (Restoring our Republic at 9.8357x10^8 FPS)
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To: cripplecreek

Awesome!


13 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.)
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To: BenLurkin

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


14 posted on 06/22/2015 6:36:26 PM PDT by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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To: BenLurkin
Awesome Face
15 posted on 06/22/2015 6:37:42 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL

15 is a view from Pluto’s moon...


16 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/)
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To: Oberon

You don’t want to go there ...


17 posted on 06/22/2015 6:39:56 PM PDT by Ken522
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To: cripplecreek
Obviously Borg.


18 posted on 06/22/2015 6:43:51 PM PDT by kitchen (The people on the left are enemies, not countrymen with different opinions.)
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To: Ken522

I heard it has a methane atmosphere.


19 posted on 06/22/2015 6:45:56 PM PDT by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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To: kitchen

Then we need to grab control of the transwarp conduit.


20 posted on 06/22/2015 6:46:43 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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