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The Moment We’ve been Waiting For: First New Images of Pluto from New Horizons
Universe Today ^
| February 4, 2015
| Nancy Atkinson
Posted on 02/05/2015 7:23:34 AM PST by kidd
Here we go! New Horizons is now on approach and today – on the anniversary of Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh’s birth – the spacecraft has sent back its first new images of the Pluto system. The images aren’t Earth-shattering (Pluto-shattering?) but they do represent the mission is closing in on its target, and will allow the New Horizons engineers to precisely aim the spacecraft as it continues its approach.
The photos were taken with the telescopic Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on January 25 and 27, 2015.
“Pluto is finally becoming more than just a pinpoint of light,” said Hal Weaver, New Horizons project scientist.
(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...
TOPICS: Extended News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: newhorizons; pluto; xplanets
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posted on
02/05/2015 7:23:34 AM PST
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kidd
To: kidd
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posted on
02/05/2015 7:24:31 AM PST
by
kidd
To: kidd
LOL kind of anticlimactic but they’ll get better pretty quickly.
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posted on
02/05/2015 7:24:49 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: kidd
More than a pinpoint of light. Fer sure. Now it’s a blob of few pixels.
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posted on
02/05/2015 7:25:40 AM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms.)
To: kidd
Still not close enough to take detailed photographs.
July seems so close and yet so far away now.
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posted on
02/05/2015 7:25:51 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: kidd
Why isn’t it wearing pants?
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posted on
02/05/2015 7:26:40 AM PST
by
dangus
To: goldstategop
Brian Williams will be there...count on it!
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posted on
02/05/2015 7:27:04 AM PST
by
Night Hides Not
(Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi!)
To: kidd
July 14 will be the closest approach
Sometime in May the pictures from Hew Horizons will be better than those from Hubble.
This was primarily a test of the camera system and is the first in a series of photos that will be used for trajectory corrections
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posted on
02/05/2015 7:28:13 AM PST
by
kidd
To: kidd
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
02/05/2015 7:32:27 AM PST
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: kidd
Okay, so we have a pic of a cotton ball in a oil drum at midnight.................
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posted on
02/05/2015 7:32:56 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
To: TexasCajun
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posted on
02/05/2015 7:33:29 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
02/05/2015 7:33:41 AM PST
by
kjam22
(my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
To: kidd
What, no URANUS jokes? You people are slippin’. :)
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posted on
02/05/2015 7:37:10 AM PST
by
V_TWIN
To: kidd
At this point- so? what? When it gets a little closer there will be something to talk about.
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posted on
02/05/2015 7:39:26 AM PST
by
arthurus
(It's true!)
To: arthurus
2015 is a big year for exploration of the solar system.
New Horizons is the biggest of them all. Space junkies appreciate this stuff.
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posted on
02/05/2015 7:43:41 AM PST
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kidd
To: goldstategop
I am happy that the New Horizons craft did not photograph Uranus.
To: kidd
The NASA folks are talking about clouds & weather on Pluto. This will get interesting.
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posted on
02/05/2015 7:48:10 AM PST
by
gdani
(Ebola exposed the U.S. as fearful, easy-to-manipulate weaklings)
To: V_TWIN
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posted on
02/05/2015 7:48:27 AM PST
by
Hatteras
To: gdani
I’m guessing very thin clouds at most.
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posted on
02/05/2015 7:52:31 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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