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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Fly Over Pluto
NASA ^
| July 18, 2015
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Posted on 07/18/2015 2:44:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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[Video Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ./APL, Southwest Research Inst.]
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posted on
07/18/2015 2:44:26 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
is that a real image or a radar image
almost looks like its made of lead
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posted on
07/18/2015 2:46:41 PM PDT
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GeronL
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posted on
07/18/2015 2:47:32 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
To: GeronL
It’s really dark there, the color is fiddled with.
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posted on
07/18/2015 2:48:10 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
To: SunkenCiv
The shadows from the mountains are cool
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posted on
07/18/2015 2:54:30 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: SunkenCiv
OK. Pluto. Been there done that now.
What’s next?
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posted on
07/18/2015 2:55:04 PM PDT
by
Maceman
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
07/18/2015 2:56:19 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: SunkenCiv
I’ve enjoyed looking at these photos of Pluto from 3 billion miles away. Just for fun last night, I found some information on the old Lunar Orbiter probes that mapped the moon from 1966 to 1967 in preparation of the Apollo landings. You should take a look at the technology they had to use to transmit the photos of the lunar surface. By our standards, primitive. The probe took film photos, processed and developed the images, and then had to convert them into digital images to transmit to earth. Primitive, but also ingenious.
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posted on
07/18/2015 3:03:32 PM PDT
by
henkster
(Where'd my tagline go?)
To: Maceman
“Whats next?’’. Colonies on the Moon with hot babes in shiny lamay suits, mini skirts and purple hair!
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posted on
07/18/2015 3:45:35 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
To: SunkenCiv
What is also breathtaking (to me) is the horizon on the first of the two flyovers, the Norgay Montes. Look at the stars and rich, beautiful view of the space beyond.
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posted on
07/18/2015 3:46:10 PM PDT
by
wetickel
To: Maceman
“OK. Pluto. Been there done that now.
Whats next?”
We have Pioneer 10, Voyager 1 and 2, and now New Horizons - after it finishes anything Pluto system, next year, all on thier individual trajectories outbound, through the ‘bubble’ at the end of the Sun’s influence of our solar system, into pure interstellar space, and all are still operating, sensing, and sending info back.
We still have a probe getting to Ceres, to explore and analyze as New horizons is doing now.
We are in the process of putting together the Orion manned spacecraft, with Mars as the destination, hopefully, in time for me to witness the launch before ‘the game is called’.
The Mars vehicles are still operating, and sending back findings.
Ad Astra!!
To: SunkenCiv
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07/18/2015 4:22:25 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono
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posted on
07/18/2015 5:15:20 PM PDT
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TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
07/18/2015 6:14:19 PM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
07/18/2015 8:25:40 PM PDT
by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
To: 21twelve
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posted on
07/18/2015 8:33:30 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
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To: wetickel
This probe has been a big success — and it’s the first new encounter we’ve had in years. Those 1970s-80s flybys of the gas giants came one after the other continually for years, and the findings were amazing. Considering the small size of Pluto and its moons, I think these more than hold their own.
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posted on
07/19/2015 7:32:59 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
To: henkster
The digitizing of photos for sending over wire — basically, fax — has been around since at least WWII. The famous Iwo Jima flag-raising shot got to the US for distribution via fax.
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posted on
07/19/2015 7:34:11 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
To: Vaquero
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posted on
07/19/2015 7:39:27 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
To: Maceman
Over the next 40 years? Approx chrono order:
- Private company launching civilians into space, suborbital flights
- Private company launching civilians into space, orbital flights
- Back to the Moon -- may even be private companies sending civilians to weeklong vacations in orbit around the Moon
- New, all-US orbital station
- Permanent human colonies on the Moon
- Probes to assay asteroids (including landings)
- Human missions to asteroids
- Human missions to and from Mars orbit
- Orbital station to Mars
- Cycler construction (Buzz Aldrin, hope he lives to see it)
- Human missions to the Martian surface
- Habitats on Martian surface
- Permanent human presence on Mars
- Human mission(s) to the "dark side" (but close to the daylight side) of Mercury
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posted on
07/19/2015 7:42:03 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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