Updates NASA New Horizons Mission Updates

[Pipcard]

They totally should name a valley "Serenity"

It might make up for how the ISS module was called Tranquility instead of Serenity (Colbert got his treadmill).

edit: the Moon's got a "Sea of Serenity," though.

 

[Artlav]

Ok, it's confirmed...
The colour is real: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-horizons-spacecraft-displays-pluto-s-big-heart-0
It''s from an image taken on July 13th, not from that pixel from May.

...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...

Hope it will pass...

 

[statickid]

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

This is interesting, I bet these are very near to being the same view!

 

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[garyw]

Well, it's certainly Pluto. Identity confirmed......

 

[StarLost]

Amazing images, so exciting!

I hope user @Starlost is seeing this? I remember your post back on the M6 New Horizons thread and have always hoped you'd get to see Pluto.

Sorry if that's cryptic for everyone else.

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?

 

[Screamer7]

Well, it's certainly Pluto. Identity confirmed......

:lol::thumbup:

 

[Thunder Chicken]

If I understand the orientation correctly, the last image shows the pole (the "disputed territory" in Randall's XKCD sketchup) that is facing the sun. Since Pluto's orbit around the sun takes 248 Earth years, it means that we're looking at the summer side. The other side has been in the cold and dark for a long time. Should be interesting to see the interface between the light and dark sides of the planet (yeah, I called it a planet).

 

[Unstung]

New Horizons should have phoned home by now. NASA TV is monitoring Mission Operations.

WE'VE GOT TELEMETRY!

 

[GLS]

IT'S ALIVE!!!!

 

[llarian]

New Horizons phones home!!!

 

[Unstung]

New Horizons has good data!

All systems are good and Hew Horizons is healthy!

 

[Thunder Chicken]

 

[Unstung]

 

[Quick_Nick]

 

[Matias Saibene]

Mipmapping everything.

 

[fsci123]

View attachment 13787

yes

 

[Andy44]

I'm late to the party, folks, been working all day, but this is a beautiful thing! Pluto can now join the ranks of all the other unique wonders of the Solar System.

Also, somewhere out there beyond the Last Planet is a CD with my name stored on it. How cool is that?

 

[statickid]

 

[Matias Saibene]

How cool is that? [/SIZE]