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New Horizons Pluto encounter - July 14, 2015
Who's been keeping track of it? I've been constantly sifting though the raw images, hoping to run enhancements with RegiStax 6. Here is the result
from 4 stacked images, released yesterday:
<img src=http://i.imgur.com/lOIPuYK.png width=800>
Has anyone tried similar processing on NASA images? This is the very first time I've used the software and because of the small target size I needed
to do a lot of things manually. It does seem that there are some details that have become clearer, including what appears to be a dark valley on the
right side of this photo.
I can't wait to see more images from the encounter - even now the results are quite astonishing.
At the end of the day, simulating atoms doesn't beat working with the real things...
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i have been waiting for these images eversince they lauched the program way back in 2006. I think i can wait a few more days to get all the full
resolutions pictures...
ever try astroart?
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Enlighten me?
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http://www.msb-astroart.com/examples.htm
it is not a free software though its pretty good from my experience with it i do like it
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Looks like the Deathstar is orbiting it.
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DIBS on Pluto. It's mine!
Keep your eyes out of my valley Brain. Go look at Uranus! (who the hell named that planet?)
They tried to have me "put to sleep" so I came back to return the favor.
Zom.
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from a moron-official (nasa?) point of view Pluto is a dead and empty semispherical rock, so for what reason a organization full of "inteligent
people" lost time, efforts and money with a vulgar rock?
in reality if you read the UMMO ufo case this people traveling to Terra stopped in this "cold star" and this is because someting of interest is in
Pluto. what? I don't know but for what UMMO people say in their letters, maybe a base destroyed o some bizarre civilization erased of the surface.
of course nasa never tell you anything of value, only trash 
you can also read the recent news about the lights in Ceres. nasa inteligent people ask what people believe are the lights
I think inteligent people say, oh! ligth in Ceres, stop the engine!!! and go more near the surface to look carefully what/who are the origin of the
light, no?
http://www.google.cat/search?hl=ca&site=imghp&tbm=is...
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sight...thought it was a scientific forum...
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almost there....
![july-8-2015-pluto-heart-new-horizons[1].jpg - 67kB](https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/files.php?pid=411968&aid=41674)
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It still is. I love these pics. Post better ones as you get them. Seeing Pluto was high on my bucket list. Billions have gone before to their
eternity, never to see this planet closeup. If it were up to me robots with go-pro would be crawling every planet and moon in the system. Maybe also
on a few of the bigger rocks in the asteroid belt as well.
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" Richard Feynman
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Neptunium, is that a picture from the craft? Wow, I hadn't realized we were so close. I have been following this, though. Waiting for it since, say
2008, when I first read of it as a kid. Seemed like ages till it then, make's me nostalgic now.
The first picture makes it seem like Ceres isn't exactly spherical and possesses a sort-of flat side.
[Edited on 7-10-2015 by The Volatile Chemist]
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what i find strycking is the major contrast between dark and bright areas.. Hubble had a low resolution photograph a few years ago that sudjested it
might be the case.
Triton looks a bit like that i think.. i wonder what processes created these features on a planet where nitrogen is a solid most of the time....
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Dude... are you kidding? Ceres?
That's Pluto and Charon my friend!
All that aside, it makes me nostalgic too. I was in second grade when New Horizons was launched in 2006, and going through a major period of
fascination with all things space related. We had a project where we would write these little books, and while most of the kids wrote little narrative
type stories, I made a book that gave a very detailed (for a second grader) explanation of many different spacecraft that have been sent up over the
years, with illustrations of each, ending with New Horizons, which I had read an article about in a magazine and was quite excited about.
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zts16 you nerd prodigy.
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look at that! nobody has ever seen theis before !
![nh-7-10-15_pluto_image_nasa-jhuapl-swri_0[2].png - 131kB](https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/files.php?pid=412099&aid=41723)
[Edited on 11-7-2015 by neptunium]
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this it Triton the biggest satellite of Neptune taken by Voyager 2 in 1989 .I think we`ll see some similar features on Pluto
![triton5[1].jpg - 124kB](https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/files.php?pid=412161&aid=41756)
this is the latest of the far side of Pluto by New Horizon July 11th
![nh-pluto-7-11-15[1].jpg - 32kB](https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/files.php?pid=412161&aid=41758)
and the Pluto/Charon pair ...
![pluto_charon_color_final[1].png - 30kB](https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/files.php?pid=412161&aid=41760)
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One million miles away.
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/07...
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/one-million-miles-to-go-pluto-i...
Pluto and Charon.
[Edited on 7-13-2015 by IrC]
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https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/pluto-s-bright-mysterious...
"Mission scientists have found Pluto to be 1,473 miles (2,370 kilometers) in diameter, somewhat larger than many prior estimates. Images acquired with
the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) were used to make this determination. This result confirms what was already suspected: Pluto is larger
than all other known solar system objects beyond the orbit of Neptune.
“The size of Pluto has been debated since its discovery in 1930. We are excited to finally lay this question to rest,” said mission scientist Bill
McKinnon, Washington University, St. Louis.
Pluto’s newly estimated size means that its density is slightly lower than previously thought, and the fraction of ice in its interior is slightly
higher. Also, the lowest layer of Pluto’s atmosphere, called the troposphere, is shallower than previously believed.
Measuring Pluto’s size has been a decades-long challenge due to complicating factors from its atmosphere. Its largest moon Charon lacks a
substantial atmosphere, and its diameter was easier to determine using ground-based telescopes. New Horizons observations of Charon confirm previous
estimates of 751 miles (1208 km) kilometers) across
LORRI has also zoomed in on two of Pluto’s smaller moons, Nix and Hydra.
“We knew from the time we designed our flyby that we would only be able to study the small moons in detail for just a few days before closest
approach,” said New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado. “Now, deep inside Pluto’s
sphere of influence, that time has come.”
Nix and Hydra were discovered using the Hubble Space Telescope in 2005. Even to Hubble, they appeared as points of light, and that’s how they looked
to New Horizons until the final week of its approach to Pluto. Now, the latest LORRI images show the two diminutive satellites not as pinpoints, but
as moons seen well enough to measure their sizes. Nix is estimated to be about 20 miles (about 35 kilometers) across, while Hydra is roughly 30 miles
(roughly 45 kilometers) across. These sizes lead mission scientists to conclude that their surfaces are quite bright, possibly due to the presence of
ice.
What about Pluto’s two smallest moons, Kerberos and Styx? Smaller and fainter than Nix and Hydra, they are harder to measure. Mission scientists
should be able to determine their sizes with observations New Horizons will make during the flyby and will transmit to Earth at a later date."
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/how-big-is-pluto-new-horizons-s...
"Charon’s newly-discovered system of chasms, larger than the Grand Canyon on Earth, rotates out of view in New Horizons’ sharpest image yet of the
Texas-sized moon. It’s trailed by a large equatorial impact crater that is ringed by bright rays of ejected material. In this latest image, the dark
north polar region is displaying new and intriguing patterns. This image was taken on July 12 from a distance of 1.6 million miles (2.5 million
kilometers)."
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/charon-s-newly-discovered...
"NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto.
After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the surface --
roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India – making it the first-ever space mission to explore a world so far from Earth."
For more information on the New Horizons mission, including fact sheets, schedules, video and images, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons
and
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/plutotoolkit.cfm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93SkmOj06Xo&feature=play...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJxwWpaGoJs&feature=play...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej3HUvLw_sA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvksfIDVGAA
[Edited on 7-15-2015 by IrC]
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Well. It's alive!
Turns out we got some PEPSSI data today, there'll be two downlinks tomorrow and we'll see some of the best images of Pluto ever. Hopefully we can also
get some moon photos in as well.
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https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/from-mountains-to-moons-m...
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/charon-s-surprising-youth...
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its a pretty incredible achievement really. the mathematics involved has to be so well modelled. cant wait to see more pics as they are made
available.
Beginning construction of periodic table display
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Those surfaces imaged in the Pluto closeup have to be less than 100 million years old. There's no other way they lack craters. Also, those mountains
(made of solid ice) are 10,000 feet tall.
My money's on cryogeysers on the surface - Triton has them, and with the apparently active surface on Pluto it wouldn't surprise me. I don't think we
got any images in the sun's shadow, but if we did any active geysers or clouds would be highlighted in the sun.
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I don't think one must conclude such a young age without considering many other factors. Orbital resonance (and other) gravitational effects could
have swept the area billions of years ago. Possibly Pluto lives in a relatively clean area in space where other bodies act to sweep the random object
deeper into the solar system. The Earth has been spared many impacts by the Moon sweeping the area and taking many of the hits destined for Earth.
Lucky for us. I have read theories that postulate empty areas in the Kuiper belt could be due to another as yet undetected massive body orbiting out
past Pluto causing such a sweeping action. Possibly a combination of both ideas are at play where your ice eruptions hide what few hits Pluto receives
over time. I suspect Pluto is more rock than many bodies that far out and I doubt its core has much heat. Assuming Pluto seldom sees any impacts the
surface would not need as much geyser activity to hide them although something needs to account for the mountains which I read are 11,000 feet high.
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every time we have sent probe in the solar system we have been surprised at what we've found. the nitrogen and CO2 ice on Triton were a complete
unexpected find so was the orange haze on Titan or Io's volcanism and many more examples...
Pluto should be no different and i bet theories will be shaken by what New Horizon turn up .
we have no clue where Pluto came from like Triton it could have been captured by the sun on its way to become a gas giant's satellite and vice versa
(a gas giant satellite escaping to further orbit) , it could have been one of the hundreds of planets populating the solar system 4.5 billion years
ago that was pushed back by Uranus and Neptune`s outward migration , time will tell ... but in any case i am already prepare to be baffled and have my
bias and preconceptions about Pluto and our solar system turned upside down!
[Edited on 16-7-2015 by neptunium]
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Really cool!
And zts16, shit. It was a late night, I'd say, but it was only 1:00PM, so.... :/
That made my bad day w/ chemistry worse 
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