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
Isn’t it amazing? Those little cold things are geologically active. Methinks we still have a whole lot to learn about the universe.
Pluto, a planet of color?
The Moon looks like a pile of debris to me.
Is there a pic further around the left side? I think I see what could be an image of the virgin Mary...........
I’m fairly certain that a planet’s moon is not considered debris.
It’s not easy keeping an orbit the volume of Pluto’s swept up and tidy.
I miss Pluto being a planet too.
Some Freeper had a picture of Pluto (the dog) in that space. That was funny too.
Everything was all neat and tidy until it turned out that electrons, neutrons and Protons were made of parts too.
At least its continental drift isn't as bad as Earth's.
A close family member knew Pluto’s discoverer.
Said member was in Professor Tombaugh’s (sp?) office at New Mexico State University back in the 1960’s.
They both may have been members of the Las Cruces, NM, Rotary Club.
Family member was on the LEM (Lunar Excursion Model) program for Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation of Long Island, New York.
The testing of the LEM was in New Mexico.
The test was super successful!
They both may have been in the Las Cruces, NM Rotary Club.
An unassuming man, the Prof.
"To Pluto And Far Beyond" By David H. Levy, Parade, January 15, 2006 -- We don't have a dictionary definition yet that includes all the contingencies. In the wake of the new discovery, however, the International Astronomical Union has set up a group to develop a workable definition of planet. For our part, in consultation with several experienced planetary astronomers, Parade offers this definition: A planet is a body large enough that, when it formed, it condensed under its own gravity to be shaped like a sphere. It orbits a star directly and is not a moon of another planet.
Thanks LibWhacker, extra to APoD.
0’s face is better suited to be on Uranus.
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