Updates NASA New Horizons Mission Updates

[jedidia]

:woohoo:

 

[Unstung]

EDIT: This thread's going faster than I expected.

The most fresh pre-encounter Pluto picture:

That link limits the resolution to 500px^2. Here's the full 640 and cropped from Wikipedia.

 

[Ravenous]

Now, we wait 5 hours for all the science points

If this had been a Rosetta operation, we'd have to wait six months...

 

[SiberianTiger]

I'm a screenshot marksman. :thumbup:

CONGRATULATIONS !!

 

[mahdavi3d]

A historic moment :thumbup:

 

[fsci123]

It looks like iapetus

 

[garyw]

Last image from New Horizons before the flyby.

After all those years, Pluto is no longer a small point in the sky but a real world with interesting geographical features. Amazing.

 

[SolarLiner]

If this had been a Rosetta operation, we'd have to wait six months...

Actually watching NASA TV, they said that the full data will take 16 months to be fully transmitted (data rates ranging from 200 to 4000 bits/s downlink).

Firstly, low resolution compressed data will be sent so that the science team will have a "data browser" of everything the probe gathered, then it will send complete, full resolution uncompressed data. NASA expects full data to be available by November 2016.

So, that being said, I'm going to correct my Red Timer(tm) for data availability:
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[Astro SG Wise]

Creating a summarizing report of mission for the AESD. :thumbup: Go New Horizons!

 

[Quick_Nick]

I only just realized that the countdown to the next xkcd what-if coincided with the New Horizons countdown.

http://what-if.xkcd.com

 

[Topper]

Is it a "river" near the crater at 8 o clock? (That one with the mountan in the middle)
To me it looks like a river which goes into the valley.
Maybe the methan or what ever it is was melted after the impact...

 

[Artlav]

And now we wait for the pictures to download...
Like the good old days of modems and midnight autodial.

 

[C3PO]

Whoosh!!!
That was exciting, wasn't it?

:bananadance:

 

[MaverickSawyer]

[eventtimer]2015-7-15 01:09:00;%hh%:%mm%:%ss%[/eventtimer] until check-in from New Horizons...

 

[Pipcard]

Miku has a song about Pluto!

 

[GLS]

[ame="http://vimeo.com/133463124"]http://vimeo.com/133463124[/ame]

 

[statickid]

Dang there is some really interesting stuff on that side we won't be seeing any better!

 

[Ripley]

When I saw Miku I said what the heck...

 

[SolarLiner]

XKCD and a special Pluto doodle:

http://xkcd.com/1551/

 

[jedidia]

They totally should name a valley "Serenity"