Updates NASA New Horizons Mission Updates

[MaverickSawyer]

When was this taken?

 

[statickid]

When was this taken?

Oh sorry I forgot to add the explanation. This is exaggerated RALPH data from the 13th

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150714-3

They said its showing the diverse nature of the surface, even when the natural color version looks very similar.

 

[SiberianTiger]

Of course, I'm still around here, 80mileshigh. I've been following almost every minute and image. This is as exciting as watching John Young fly over New Brunswick in Gemini when I was a kid.

Fascinating how each major body in the system has its own unique characteristics, isn't it?

You've done it, my friend! :tiphat:

 

[Athena]

...Somehow i find reality hard to accept here...
A new astronomical body was found that is not yet another shade of grey...
That... never happened to me before.
I can't shake the feeling that the picture is fake, false-colour...

I'm glad i'm not the only one feeling like that. :lol:

 

[Linguofreak]

it probably looks false color because the color data is from a lower resolution data. I'm sure it'll look much more natural when the color and b/w imagery are more consistently recorded

Not necessarily: The human visual system has poorer spatial resolution for color than for luminosity, which is much of the reason *why* you will see high resolution b/w imagery combined with low resolution color: The eye can't tell the difference.

 

[Pipcard]

New Horizons by Anomonny

(He's a fan of both space/NASA and Miku!)

 

[Quick_Nick]

Remember that there is a conference (NASA TV) in 30 minutes.
Prepare your eyes for amazement!

 

[GLS]

Remember that there is a conference (NASA TV) in 30 minutes.
Prepare your eyes for amazement!

According to SFN this is what we are getting;
Pluto stereo footprints (3) at 0.24 miles/pixel
Charon photo at 1.4 miles/pixel
Hydra photo at 2.0 miles/pixel
Nix photo at 1.8 miles/pixel
Pluto occultation count rates
Radio Science Experiment temperature measurements of Pluto’s night side
Alice airglow spectra
SWAP data on solar wind-atmospheric interaction
PEPSSI data on pickup of molecules from Pluto’s atmosphere

 

[Quick_Nick]

It begins now! Here we go!

 

[GLS]

Grunsfeld: from astronaut to standup comedian :rofl:

 

[fsci123]

Charon was active!!!:banana::woohoo:

 

[fsci123]

Basically they are saying that both worlds are probably geologically active because the surfaces are notably absent in craters. Some surface features maybe less than 150 million years old

 

[Urwumpe]

Thats really extremely unexpected and extremely cool. I would have expected a heavily cratered planet, possibly with signs of large collisions in the past... but thats not even looking like impacts on soft ice.

 

[Topper]

Montains made of water ice...?
Maybe there is truely an ocean under the surface ... who knows...

 

[jedidia]

Most of those flanks show what look like erosion patterns. Probably just me seeing things...

 

[Quick_Nick]

Conference is over.
So...um...wow.

 

[jedidia]

So...um...wow.

Yeah, it does seem like we have to revise our theories for every single planet we learn more about :lol:

 

[garyw]

Charon also has some interesting features including a chasm over 4 miles deep.

 

[Artlav]

Same pic without the ugly scale bar.

Well... Wow indeed.

 

[Topper]

This animation combines various observations of Pluto over the course of several decades. The first frame is a digital zoom-in on Pluto as it appeared upon its discovery by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 (image courtesy Lowell Observatory Archives). The other images show various views of Pluto as seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope beginning in the 1990s and NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2015. The final sequence zooms in to a close-up frame of Pluto released on July 15, 2015.