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Pluto – Just Look at the Detail!
universetoday.com ^ | on July 14, 2015 | Bob King

Posted on 07/14/2015 12:30:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin

At 7:49 a.m. EDT today New Horizons made history when it zoomed within 7,800 miles of Pluto, the most remote object ever visited in the Solar System.

Pluto has a very complex surface. The fact that large areas show few craters – as compared to say, Ceres or Vesta – shows that there have relatively recent changes there. Maybe very recent. Alan Stern, principal investigator for the mission, was asked by a report at this morning’s press conference if it snows on Pluto. His answer: “It sure looks like it.”

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TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: charon; newhorizons; pluto
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To: BenLurkin

Looks like a dog I know


21 posted on 07/14/2015 12:55:33 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Hot Tabasco

The camera they use was probably the highest resolution available 10-12 years ago when they were building the spacecraft.


22 posted on 07/14/2015 1:02:28 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (INTOLERANCE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!!!!)
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To: BenLurkin

Although these are preliminary and not close-up photos, I’m surprised that the impact crater edges don’t appear better-defined. They seem eroded or weathered. If true, I’m curious what force(s) might have caused that.


23 posted on 07/14/2015 1:04:28 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: BenLurkin

Looks like a typical Muslim country...


24 posted on 07/14/2015 1:04:31 PM PDT by mikeus_maximus
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To: oh8eleven
I’m all for (unmanned) space exploration, but for $700 million is that all we get?

Well, considering the fabrication costs, the R&D, the cost of fuel for 9 years and the salary to pay the PHD braniacs who run this thing, I think it's money well spent.

Just think how much it would cost if they were union employees (the IBPHD...The International Brotherhood of PHDs)..........LOL!

25 posted on 07/14/2015 1:06:40 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (<i>)
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To: Steely Tom

I bought a small estate on it. What better fence to have than 5 billion miles?


26 posted on 07/14/2015 1:11:30 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: BenLurkin

Besides the obvious science, we (USA) get prestige.

We keep attracting the best and brightest, which we need to outsmart our enemies and grow the economy.


27 posted on 07/14/2015 1:12:42 PM PDT by cicero2k
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To: Blood of Tyrants

That and the amount of light and heat that would be available to get information would be very, very minimal.


28 posted on 07/14/2015 1:14:03 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: mikeus_maximus
Looks like a typical Muslim country...

No way.. I do not see even one beheaded body

29 posted on 07/14/2015 1:30:37 PM PDT by tophat9000 (SCOTUS=Newspeak)
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To: Jonty30

Can you imagine the people who worked on this for year after year? They will start getting layoff slips tomorrow.


30 posted on 07/14/2015 1:31:05 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (INTOLERANCE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!!!!)
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To: Hot Tabasco
I think it's money well spent.
C'mon, if all the people involved in this project and all the space projects are so excited about space - let them pay for it themselves.
The Space Shuttle is another good example. For 30 years the shuttles went up and the shuttles came down.
And what do we the taxpayer have to show for it - other than the $190 billion cost? Nada.
31 posted on 07/14/2015 1:38:23 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Huskrrrr

Amazing detail in your photo.


32 posted on 07/14/2015 1:47:05 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

Is that a Bigfoot foot print bottom center ?


33 posted on 07/14/2015 1:50:49 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: oh8eleven
The Space Shuttle is another good example. For 30 years the shuttles went up and the shuttles came down.

Yes they did and where was the necessary public funding to attempt this in the private sector???

So you have a problem with the Apollo moon landing missions, the Skylab space station and later the Space Shuttle? And lets add to that the International Space Station, the Earth Observing System, heliophysics, robotic spacecraft, the current Mars explorer, the Hubbell telescope….and the list goes on and on and on……

So how many of those projects were privately funded?

When the time comes when there is a profit to be made, such projects will be taken over by the private sector……….

Nice try.....

34 posted on 07/14/2015 2:11:30 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (<i>)
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To: Hot Tabasco
At 7,800 miles, one would think they would have a camera that could take more close up pictures......

It's moving fast, and there ain't much light out there.

Maybe I’m expecting too much and trying to compare this one to the Hubbell

Hubble can spend weeks doing one shot. This probe doesn't have that luxury. There's no real way to brake it.

35 posted on 07/14/2015 2:13:20 PM PDT by zeugma (The best defense against a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun)
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To: oh8eleven

Actually quite a bit of actual science that have gone into licensed technologies to other industries such as an implantable heart pump based on a shuttle fuel pump design and here’s a paper with over 120 others to peruse:

https://spinoff.nasa.gov/pdf/AIAA-2010-8885-305.pdf


36 posted on 07/14/2015 2:14:11 PM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
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To: reed13k

Here’s another list of NASA tech spinoff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies


37 posted on 07/14/2015 2:17:37 PM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
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To: BenLurkin

"...looks like sumtin I chased under the sofa last week"

38 posted on 07/14/2015 2:17:44 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: oh8eleven

Much more coming starting tomorrow. They oriented the probe to gather as much data as possible during the close approach rather than have it spend that time pointing back towards earth. It’ll phone home briefly at 9pm tonight, then starting tomorrow morning it will stream back all of the data for the next 16 months. Press conference I watched said the bit rate was between 1kb/sec to 4kb/sec depending on if they have it do some sort of spin while it transmits.

Should have the closeups soon!


39 posted on 07/14/2015 2:18:13 PM PDT by Textide (Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
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To: BenLurkin; dware

And all this science, I don’t understand. It’s just my job five days a week...


40 posted on 07/14/2015 2:18:13 PM PDT by philled (If this creature is not stopped it could make its way to Novosibirsk!)
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