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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Pluto from above Cthulhu Regio
NASA ^
| September 14, 2015
| (see photo credit)
Posted on 09/14/2015 3:42:08 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: New high resolution images of Pluto are starting to arrive from the outer Solar System. The robotic New Horizons spacecraft, which zoomed by Pluto in July, has finished sending back some needed engineering data and is now transmitting selections from its tremendous storehouse of images of Pluto and its moons. The featured image, a digital composite, details a surprising terrain filled with craters, plains, landscape of unknown character, and landforms that resemble something on Earth but are quite unexpected on Pluto. The light area sprawling across the upper right has been dubbed Sputnik Planum and is being studied for its unusual smoothness, while the dark cratered area just under the spacecraft is known as Cthulhu Regio. So far, New Horizons has only shared a few percent of the images and data it took during its Pluto flyby, but will continue to send back new views of the dwarf planet even as it glides outward toward even more distant explorations.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; astronomy; cthulhu; hplovecraft; lovecraft; newhorizons; pluto; science
[Credit and Copyright: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ./APL, Southwest Research Inst.]
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posted on
09/14/2015 3:42:08 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
To: brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; steelyourfaith; Mmogamer; dayglored; ...
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posted on
09/14/2015 3:43:23 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/14/2015 3:45:51 AM PDT
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cripplecreek
(Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
To: cripplecreek; shibumi
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posted on
09/14/2015 3:57:35 AM PDT
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Salamander
(...and He who made kittens, put snakes in the grass...)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/14/2015 4:03:37 AM PDT
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Crazieman
(Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
To: Crazieman
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posted on
09/14/2015 4:06:55 AM PDT
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GreenLanternCorps
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To: Crazieman
Dutch: You're one... *ugly* motherf****r!
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posted on
09/14/2015 4:13:16 AM PDT
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Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: SunkenCiv
Out in the middle of nowhere, this planet/planetoid is just peppered with asteroid impact craters. Makes you think....
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posted on
09/14/2015 5:18:00 AM PDT
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Nabber
To: Nabber
It has enough mass to make it spherical.
Orbits the Sun.
Sure looks like a PLANET to me!
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09/14/2015 5:33:35 AM PDT
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BwanaNdege
("When the left wins, they're in power; when the right wins, they're in office." - Mark Steyn)
To: Nabber
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posted on
09/14/2015 6:04:24 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
To: BwanaNdege
It orbits the sun but none of us will ever reach a Plutonian year in age. 1 Pluto orbit = 248 Earth orbits
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posted on
09/14/2015 6:11:20 AM PDT
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xp38
To: SunkenCiv; Slings and Arrows
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posted on
09/14/2015 8:35:37 AM PDT
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Gefn
(Our next President needs a First Cat in the White House.)
To: Gefn
Cthulhu for President. Why vote for the lesser evil?
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09/14/2015 9:42:15 AM PDT
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JoeFromSidney
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To: Gefn
They’ve got to have the Mountains of Madness too.
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09/14/2015 2:23:24 PM PDT
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Slings and Arrows
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To: Gefn
I do wonder who had the idea to name it that way, regardless, it’s excellent — although that doesn’t solve the mystery of the location of Carcosa, since that planet has twin suns.
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09/15/2015 8:21:36 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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