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Global Mosaic of Pluto in True Color (highest resolution full-face photo released to date)
NASA ^
| 7/24/15
Posted on 07/25/2015 9:33:45 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Four images from New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) were combined with color data from the Ralph instrument to create this sharper global view of Pluto. (The lower right edge of Pluto in this view currently lacks high-resolution color coverage.) The images, taken when the spacecraft was 280,000 miles (450,000 kilometers) away from Pluto, show features as small as 1.4 miles (2.2 kilometers). That’s twice the resolution of the single-image view captured on July 13 and revealed at the approximate time of New Horizons’ July 14 closest approach.
Image Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: charon; high; mosaic; newhorizons; pluto; resolution
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To: LibWhacker
Pluto has a bad case of acne.
To: LibWhacker
Compared to our previous images of Pluto that photo is amazing. Hat tip to the space guys.
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posted on
07/25/2015 9:42:16 AM PDT
by
dainbramaged
(Get out of my country now)
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
07/25/2015 9:43:09 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: dainbramaged
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posted on
07/25/2015 9:44:05 AM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: LibWhacker
There appears to be a strange wrinkle in Pluto's Future
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posted on
07/25/2015 9:44:06 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: PGR88
Dwarf planet, to be precise.
To: LibWhacker
Pluto’s a planet again?
(I haven’t been keeping up with space news.)
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posted on
07/25/2015 9:44:26 AM PDT
by
KosmicKitty
(Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
To: KosmicKitty
I also posted without reading the thread - again LOL
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posted on
07/25/2015 9:45:30 AM PDT
by
KosmicKitty
(Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
Pluto has a bad case of acne.Looks like a case of 'roids to me.
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posted on
07/25/2015 9:46:47 AM PDT
by
D Rider
To: LibWhacker
I wonder if it regrets getting the heart shaped tramp stamp.
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posted on
07/25/2015 9:47:40 AM PDT
by
linear
(Fealty to no man or party.)
To: LibWhacker
Looks like something a dung beetle rolled in!
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posted on
07/25/2015 9:48:11 AM PDT
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: LibWhacker
Quite a high definition photo. Certainly different than I’d thought just a month ago.
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posted on
07/25/2015 9:48:54 AM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: LibWhacker
Great photo; great accomplishment.
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posted on
07/25/2015 9:50:12 AM PDT
by
luvbach1
(We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
To: KosmicKitty
I only posted one second before you. So all is forgiven. :-)
Saw a list of new words the other day: plutoed, meaning to be demoted. My boss plutoed me. Best thing to come out of that whole IAU debacle!
To: MeshugeMikey
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posted on
07/25/2015 9:50:56 AM PDT
by
luvbach1
(We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
To: PGR88
it sure looks like a planet to me,
To: LibWhacker
Where duh flag at?
To: PGR88
It may be round, but it’s orbit is not clear of debris. That’s one of the qualification for a body to be a planet.
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posted on
07/25/2015 10:01:06 AM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: LibWhacker
Interesting places, Pluto and Charon. Both relatively active. Stunning geology.
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posted on
07/25/2015 10:01:35 AM PDT
by
onedoug
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