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New Pluto photo.. Majestic Mountains and Frozen Plains (Wow!)
John Hopkins ^ | 9/17/15

Posted on 09/17/2015 5:26:37 PM PDT by LibWhacker

Just 15 minutes after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft looked back toward the sun and captured a near-sunset view of the rugged, icy mountains and flat ice plains extending to Pluto's horizon. The smooth expanse of the informally named Sputnik Planum (right) is flanked to the west (left) by rugged mountains up to 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) high, including the informally named Norgay Montes in the foreground and Hillary Montes on the skyline. The backlighting highlights more than a dozen layers of haze in Pluto's tenuous but distended atmosphere. The image was taken from a distance of 11,000 miles (18,000 kilometers) to Pluto; the scene is 230 miles (380 kilometers) across.


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: horizons; new; newhorizons; photo; pluto
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1 posted on 09/17/2015 5:26:37 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

Wow. Just wow.


2 posted on 09/17/2015 5:28:45 PM PDT by marron
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To: LibWhacker

They tried to tell those plutonions no SUVs, but they wouldn’t listen.


3 posted on 09/17/2015 5:29:57 PM PDT by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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To: LibWhacker

It’s Johns Hopkins not John Hopkins. Just saying.


4 posted on 09/17/2015 5:30:17 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper (Mi baol ach dom olcas mise)
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To: LibWhacker

Pluto has MASS. It’s a friggin’ PLANET!

Those gaseous void, ‘Planets’ *SMIRK* are the ones that need to go!!

But seriously, this is the most AWESOME Solar System I’ve ever lived in; I say we keep them all, anyways. :)

The Solar System Song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUZ2tfr1bsU


5 posted on 09/17/2015 5:33:34 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: big'ol_freeper

Oops.


6 posted on 09/17/2015 5:34:50 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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What a life we have experienced! My mom turns 95 next Sunday. I arrived in ‘51. No AC, no space travel. No fast food. No TV. A party line phone for the “wealthy”, X-ray images of your feet at the Buster Brown Shoe Store. All that aside, happiness still only occurs between the ears.


7 posted on 09/17/2015 5:35:13 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: LibWhacker

That’s awesome. Thanks.


8 posted on 09/17/2015 5:35:35 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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Kind of looks like a Michigan driveway in January.


9 posted on 09/17/2015 5:36:19 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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Awsome! I'd rather spend Billions on this than on Iran.

10 posted on 09/17/2015 5:36:53 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: LibWhacker

For some reason, when I see a picture like this, I kind of regret that I didn’t have a chance to see it when I was about twelve years old, when I use to look up in the sky and night at wonder what it was like. It would have been almost magical.


11 posted on 09/17/2015 5:38:00 PM PDT by odawg
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To: LibWhacker

#LittlePlanetsMatter


12 posted on 09/17/2015 5:38:57 PM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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13 posted on 09/17/2015 5:39:24 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: VanDeKoik

LOL!


14 posted on 09/17/2015 5:40:43 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

That is the first photo of Pluto I’ve seen that lived up to its hype.


15 posted on 09/17/2015 5:41:52 PM PDT by Williams
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To: VanDeKoik
Kind of looks like a Michigan driveway in January.

LOL Welcome to Hoth.


16 posted on 09/17/2015 5:43:11 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: Williams

I hear ‘ya. Saving the best for last, I guess. These pics are going to continue trickling in for the next nine months or so. So I’m definitely expecting to be saying, “WOW,” a lot during that time.


17 posted on 09/17/2015 5:45:18 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

Awesome photo.

I can understand the names Norgay Montes and Hillary Montes, but Sputnik Planum? It’s our probe.


18 posted on 09/17/2015 5:45:27 PM PDT by Ray76 (Mitch McConnell - leader of the Death To America Caucus)
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To: LibWhacker

Looks like a Planet to me.


19 posted on 09/17/2015 5:45:51 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current devices...one uses Brit spel now.)
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To: gorush

My Grandparents were all born in the 1800s. They died from the 50s to the 70s. They saw the transformation from ox cart travel to supersonic jets. Their parents lived through or fought in the Civil War.

Electricity, radio, TV, men on the moon and on and on.

There has never been such a change in technology, ever.


20 posted on 09/17/2015 5:46:02 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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