New Horizons: Voyage to Pluto.
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Incubus
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When's the next NASA TV briefing on Pluto again? I seem to remember it's supposed to arrive sometime at the end of September but I can't quite remember now... With data having been continually downloaded over the past month-and-a-half we should be getting quite a few more high-resolution images. Looking forward to that.
There are many issues slowing things down.
1 kb transmission rate is the main one. But data processing has some bumps on the ground as well.
This blog also suggests that processed images are being held back so the Pluto team aren't 'scooped' by other scientists, which is why the raw image downloads page has very little on it. See below.
I suspect it will be nearer the end of the year after reading that blog. I hope not.
Raw image site.
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounter/index.php?page=1
1 kb transmission rate is the main one. But data processing has some bumps on the ground as well.
This blog also suggests that processed images are being held back so the Pluto team aren't 'scooped' by other scientists, which is why the raw image downloads page has very little on it. See below.
I suspect it will be nearer the end of the year after reading that blog. I hope not.
Raw image site.
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounter/index.php?page=1
New images at last. Ice flows, mountains, dunes and ancient craters all in the same image. Amazing.
New Pluto Images from NASA’s New Horizons: It’s Complicated
New Pluto Images from NASA’s New Horizons: It’s Complicated
I think it will remain classified as a dwarf planet. Its strange orbit can't ever qualify it for major planet status.
soccerman17
Race Winner
Also its size
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Dash Racing
Points Scorer
Oxidized iron deposits, possibly?
Charon definitely looks like it broke in half and was then badly glued back together in a Friday afternoon rush job.
Incubus
Champion Elect
Or... maybe it actually is in the process of continually breaking itself apart right now in a process powered by whatever's happening under its surface? Like, say, flows of liquid water beneath the surface?
Getting a bit ahead of myself here but they did say "amazing news" so given the secrecy they're keeping things in until tomorrow it's gotta be something big, whatever that is.
Getting a bit ahead of myself here but they did say "amazing news" so given the secrecy they're keeping things in until tomorrow it's gotta be something big, whatever that is.
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