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Pluto has dunes, but they're not made of sand
Space.com ^ | May 31, 2018 | Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer

Posted on 06/01/2018 6:44:44 PM PDT by ETL

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21 posted on 06/02/2018 11:23:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: ETL

Pluto’s also got giant slugs.

Seen ‘em on the internets so it must be true.


22 posted on 06/02/2018 11:29:09 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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23 posted on 06/02/2018 6:10:19 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: George from New England

So digital TV or digital cameras don’t exist then. (Sometimes I wish they didn’t!) So all those CCDs and other digital imaging/processing technologies (and optics!) I worked on for 20 years didn’t actually happen. I was doing something else and didn’t know it.


24 posted on 06/02/2018 6:20:14 PM PDT by Reily
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I’m saying the light is almost non existent by pluto, colors even harder to discern, nasa like GE “we bring good things to life.”

All those colorful renditions are just that, patterns being assigned arbitrary colors so we end up with something the public can consume. Yes there are data patterns but hardly the same thing we see on the TV or computer screen.


25 posted on 06/02/2018 7:08:33 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: ETL

Ain’t the place to raise a kid.


26 posted on 06/02/2018 7:31:45 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: George from New England

Sorry you’re wrong! That imaging technology has been around a long time. Used in everything from commercial digital cameras (most cell phones have such a camera!) to spy and commercial earth imaging satellites to Deep space NASA satellites that you think are lies. In fact the spy-earth-imaging satellites are pretty much the same thing as these deep space NASA ones. They have just been sent on a long trip, the communication packages that send the images back work on the same principles as HDTV. Yes the signals are small but if the signal format is designed properly (It is!) very recoverable!


27 posted on 06/03/2018 6:39:37 AM PDT by Reily
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Here is a clearer image...

Pluto dunes

BLOWING IN THE WIND  This image from the New Horizons spacecraft’s 2015 flyby of Pluto shows dunes (center bottom and right) along a mountain range. The ripples are made of sand-sized grains of methane ice, researchers say.


28 posted on 06/03/2018 12:59:58 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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Note: this topic is from 6/01/2018. Thanks ETL.



29 posted on 09/30/2018 12:24:01 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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