Posted on 05/27/2015 1:32:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: Here comes Pluto. NASA's robotic New Horizons spacecraft is now beyond the orbit of Neptune and closing fast on the Solar System's most famous unexplored world. The featured time lapse video shows Pluto and Pluto's largest moon, Charon, orbiting their common center of mass in 13 frames taken from April 12 to April 18. Although blurry, images in the video now rival even the best images of Pluto yet taken from Earth. New Horizons remains on schedule to zoom past the distant dwarf planet on July 14.
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[Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins U. Applied Physics Lab., Southwest Research Inst.]
This most recent image is considered about equal to what can be obtained by the Hubble telescope. All images after this will be the best images of Pluto ever seen
Still looks like a tennis ball..........after Wimbledon...............
This is so cool, Civ. Been waiting years for this arrival.
Pluto....and that’s Mickey circling Pluto
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