NASA releases clearest images of Pluto world might see for decades

cnn ^ | Hilary Whiteman, CNN

[BenLurkin]

Black and white images beamed to Earth could be some of the clearest close-ups of Pluto's surface humans see for decades, NASA says.

The images, taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, show craters, mountains and glacial terrain along a strip 50 miles (80 kilometers) wide.

The spacecraft took them in July during its closest flyby of Pluto - which is at a distance from Earth that varies from 4.67 billion miles (7.5 billion kilometers) to 2.66 billion miles (4.28 billion kilometers) - and they were among the most recent batch sent to back to our planet.

[BenLurkin]

“slide show” at link

[Paladin2]

Looks like a Planet.....

[rktman]

I’m waiting for the inevitable.............Huey, Duey, Louie, Micky, Minnie, Donald........... I know they’re comin’.

[cicero2k]

Or see them here:

http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/4/9851162/nasa-new-horizons-pluto-photo-new-high-resolution?ref=yfp

Take away:

1. Outstanding clarity from horizon to mountains to dunes.

2. Thankfully our plant is in the habitable zone. These probed worlds will never be a place for a better life.

3. The idea that we can confidently intervene with our climate, intending to make it better and not make it worse: hubris in the extreme.

[Gefn]

Tag line.......

Bookmarking too.

[NYer]

Ping!

[Moonman62]

It is a planet. The people who demoted Pluto were very sneaky and underhanded in the way they did it.

[Charles Henrickson]

clearest images of Pluto world might see for decades

It's that darn climate change again. Now we're exporting it to other planets and even dwarf demi-planets. Fogs everything up, makes everything blurry. Watch, it will happen to Pluto soon! And we're not doing a darn thing about it!!

[fivecatsandadog]

Looks like Utah.

[Paladin2]

Or certain parts of I-da-ho....

[BwanaNdege]

Looks like ice! Methane Ice? Nitrogen ice?

Anybody know?

[kjam22]

Looks like Utah.

From 6 miles up

[expat_panama]

iirc that place is so darn cold that it’s got lakes of liquid helium.

[FredZarguna]

Please don't patronize CNN, it's just click bait anyway. Go here instead: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/images/index.html

[TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed]

NASA is very good at photoshopping.

[PAR35]

Carved face of a bearded humanoid.

Not quite as good as the stone lizard on Mars.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks NYer for the ping, and BenLurkin for the topic, extra to APoD.

[dsc]

“The people who demoted Pluto were very sneaky and underhanded in the way they did it.”

Sounds like bureaucratic personality disorder, the silent scourge of modern America.

[fivecatsandadog]

Exactly