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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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To: Ray76

Sputnik Planum... Political correctness taken to its extreme, making our enemies feel good about themselves.


21 posted on 09/17/2015 5:48:49 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: VanDeKoik

Yeah, I was just thinking how cold it looks.


22 posted on 09/17/2015 5:52:38 PM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: yarddog

Amazing. Steam engines increased the speed of human travel back in the early 1800’s for the first time ever, that was huge. But these last 100 years have been over the top in terms of human accomplishment. But we have lost a lot in terms of human interaction as well.


23 posted on 09/17/2015 5:52:48 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: LibWhacker

Has New Horizons invented a new version of Tang or anything yet?


24 posted on 09/17/2015 5:52:48 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal.")
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To: LibWhacker

Wow.

That’s all I got.


25 posted on 09/17/2015 5:56:47 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: VanDeKoik

That’s after I’m done shoveling.


26 posted on 09/17/2015 6:04:59 PM PDT by mcshot (We have but our word and honor - 0 has 0.)
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To: LibWhacker

Hoth!


27 posted on 09/17/2015 6:05:47 PM PDT by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“But seriously, this is the most AWESOME Solar System I’ve ever lived in;”

See, thats why you homers need get out more. Expand your horizons...


28 posted on 09/17/2015 6:07:15 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart ("The road is long...and I must poop." - Volarian Lionheart/Hero of the people)
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To: cripplecreek

A salesman came up here and commented in the morning that he has never seen so many little houses on the prairie.
It was funny at the time.


29 posted on 09/17/2015 6:07:57 PM PDT by mcshot (We have but our word and honor - 0 has 0.)
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To: cripplecreek

Looks like the Raquette River in Tupper Lake NY. in Feb. I’d say I feel your pain but having live there I have yet to thaw out so I don’t feel much really...


30 posted on 09/17/2015 6:10:34 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart ("The road is long...and I must poop." - Volarian Lionheart/Hero of the people)
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To: LibWhacker

Zits! Pluto has zits! Quick launch a load of Clearasil to it.

IN SPACE, THERE ARE NO ZITS!


31 posted on 09/17/2015 6:17:17 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (.)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

ZIT SHAMER!!!!!


32 posted on 09/17/2015 6:21:44 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart ("The road is long...and I must poop." - Volarian Lionheart/Hero of the people)
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To: LibWhacker

Who would imagine Pluto would have an atmosphere? A thin one, but one none the less. That photo alone warents reinstatement as a planet.


33 posted on 09/17/2015 6:23:47 PM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Mon Dieu! Lac Tupper !


34 posted on 09/17/2015 6:25:42 PM PDT by Dubh_Ghlase
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To: LibWhacker

This is all fake photos of Pluto. Everyone knows that this is a close up photo of a salt crystal. Just like the moon and stars and so on are just backdrops to the play we are in.


35 posted on 09/17/2015 6:26:33 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: LibWhacker
This was also on the JHU website, dated today (9/15).

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Science-Photos/pics/Overview_reduced-9-17-15.jpg

36 posted on 09/17/2015 6:26:33 PM PDT by Gideon7
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To: Dubh_Ghlase

Bien Oui Misure!


37 posted on 09/17/2015 6:28:05 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart ("The road is long...and I must poop." - Volarian Lionheart/Hero of the people)
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To: yarddog
"There has never been such a change in technology, ever."

There's been various opinions on what era featured the most stunning technological developments. The period from 1850-1900-1905 might be the greatest as far as incredible change experienced by the average citizen. In 1850, about the start of the Industrial Revolution, they did have steam engines.

But in the next fifty or so years they went from people mostly traveling by horse or boat to airplanes and gasoline-powered automobiles. The radio was invented as were motion pictures and numerous other mechanical and electrical devices.

But again there was immense progress from the early 1900s to 1950 and beyond. Many years ago I talked to a man who was born in the late 19th century and was about 80 at the time I conversed with him (1972). He said modern people had no idea of how life was so much easier in 1972 than it was in the early 1900s. I believed him.

38 posted on 09/17/2015 6:39:36 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: marron

You can say that again. Amazing.


39 posted on 09/17/2015 6:47:10 PM PDT by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: VanDeKoik

“Kind of looks like a Michigan driveway in January.”

Ha. With the mountains being the huge chunks the plow threw up across the end of your newly shoveled driveway!


40 posted on 09/17/2015 6:52:25 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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