New Horizons' Pluto Flyby

[D'z Nutz]

Anyone following this? Less than a week until it does its Pluto flyby! :clap: :clap:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/index.html

http://i0.wp.com/www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Pluto-Charon-color-movie.gif

[bourge73]

Can't wait until it gets to Uranus

[Feruk]

Yeah very excited to see what they get next week. I never knew Pluto was reddish... always figured it was some sort of grey ice ball.


Originally posted by bourge73
Can't wait until it gets to Uranus
You need a solar system map for Christmas. You seem to be looking for Uranus in all the wrong places. :D

[suntan]

Uranus is unremarkable.

[ekguy]

Originally posted by Feruk
Yeah very excited to see what they get next week. I never knew Pluto was reddish... always figured it was some sort of grey ice ball.


You need a solar system map for Christmas. You seem to be looking for Uranus in all the wrong places. :D

probably the couple puffs but jesus this made me laugh so hard!!

I've been following this story for a while. Super excited to see the closer views of pluto.

[D'z Nutz]

Details are starting to get sharper now.

http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pluto_charon_color_final.png

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-and-charon-new-horizons-dynamic-duo

[BerserkerCatSplat]

It's going to be some time before I imagine Pluto as a small red ball instead of a small grey ball, haha. Old habits die hard!

[BigDL]

I read that it will take 16 months for all the data to be sent back to earth due to the distance and shitty upload rate due to it. Can't wait to see the pictures.

[Ca_Silvia13]

Ya it's too bad the craft couldn't slow down enough to orbit Pluto and get some real detailed photos. New Horizons is going to do the fastest ricer fly by ever

[ekguy]

The fact that humans were able to do this is very impressive.

[HHURICANE1]

Less than 1 million miles to go now. New Horizons is on its own now. No more communications until after the fly-by. Looking forward to the results!

[JAYMEZ]

Tuesday will be a cool day indeed!

[D'z Nutz]

The orbital path of Pluto's moons is pretty cool!

https://i.imgur.com/cH2l37N.gif

[Seth1968]

Originally posted by D'z Nutz
The orbital path of Pluto's moons is pretty cool!



Wow.

In astronomical time, it's not going to very long before a few of those bodies are going to be "doing it".

Many have just recently. The proof being the needy grand kids causing the irregular orbits :D

[Feruk]

They may be irregular, but they're likely stable orbits.

[D'z Nutz]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJ3tlOJWEAAoKYj.jpg

[A790]

Hnggggg only 13 hours or so until some new images!

[AndyL]

Lol looks like Pluto has an image of Pluto (as in Disney) on it ;)

[JRSC00LUDE]

Pffffft, that isn't even a real planet anymore.... :zzz:

[ExtraSlow]

https://d1sb2vhc1h1lwk.cloudfront.net/designs/129828/Preview/191919/display.jpg

[Cos]

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[D'z Nutz]

Flyby was a success.

They'll be replaying the signal acquisition at 7:30

http://www.space.com/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html

[blairtruck]

how fast is that thing?
is it travelling like 600 miles per second?

[AndyL]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJ4ejHkUsAAEAnm.jpg

See its not just me.... Pluto is branded, by Disney corp!

This is clearly a false flag operation ;)

[revelations]

First high res images of Pluto, thats no moon!!

[revelations]

:)

[Inzane]

Originally posted by D'z Nutz

https://i.imgur.com/cH2l37N.gif

Hail Hydra!

[BigDL]

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ live update

[D'z Nutz]

http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/nh_01_stern_05_pluto_hazenew.jpg


Backlit by the sun, Pluto’s atmosphere rings its silhouette like a luminous halo in this image taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft around midnight EDT on July 15. This global portrait of the atmosphere was captured when the spacecraft was about 1.25 million miles (2 million kilometers) from Pluto and shows structures as small as 12 miles across. The image, delivered to Earth on July 23, is displayed with north at the top of the frame.

http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-new-horizons-team-finds-haze-flowing-ice-on-pluto



http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_feature/public/thumbnails/image/nh-pluto-charon-natural-color.jpg


Pluto and Charon are shown in a composite of natural-color images from New Horizons. Images from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) were combined with color data from the Ralph instrument to produce these views, which portray Pluto and Charon as an observer riding on the spacecraft would see them. The images were acquired on July 13 and 14, 2015.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/pluto-and-charon-in-natural-color



http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_feature/public/thumbnails/image/global-mosaic-of-pluto-in-true-color.jpg


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.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/global-mosaic-of-pluto-in-true-color