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New Horizons~Pluto~Ultima Thule

After a wait, spacecraft confirms that it survived its close pass of Pluto

http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...cb0f04-2a1f-11e5-bd33-395c05608059_story.html

New Horizons spacecraft phoned home Tuesday night, reporting that it had made it to Pluto and beyond after crossing the solar system for 9.5 years. To the immense relief of the men and women who had built it and then flung it into deep space, the robotic probe sent a brief stream of data, received shortly before 9 p.m., confirming that it had survived the close pass of the dwarf planet.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft reached Pluto on Tuesday after crossing the solar system for nine and a half years, inciting a day-long celebration that stretched into the evening as scientists and engineers awaited the crucial “I-survived” message from the robotic probe.

On its approach to Pluto, the spacecraft obtained the most arresting image yet of the dwarf planet. Pluto is not a bland and featureless ball of ice, but rather a complex, variegated, mottled world with broad snowfields, structures that look like cliffs or fault lines, and a strikingly bright heart-shaped area that could be the eroded remnant of a giant impact crater.

Cheers erupted at 7:50 a.m. Tuesday at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, the home of the mission, as a countdown clock ticked to zero, signifying the spacecraft’s closest approach to Pluto’s surface, about 7,750 miles.
 
This is so cool..If we just didn't have the political divide in this country the solar system could be ours to have bases everywhere...
 
Honestly, I never thought I would see what Pluto actually looks like. I'd always imagined it as just a rock with other rocks. This is so cool. NASA's budget needs to be fully funded - whatever they need.
 
This is so cool..If we just didn't have the political divide in this country the solar system could be ours to have bases everywhere...

So true, isn't it about time for humanity to reach out and colonize space instead of endless globalist system of divide and conquer politics and war...nice thought anyway..the sooner the truth embargo ends the sooner we can get thier perhaps..maybe someday..

Pluto is now the most distant object ever visited by humanity
 
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found this on a local news' facebook page. Enjoy the hilarity.
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Please someone find the GIF of a head bashing the desk... Some people just need to have their head drilled out with a Black and Decker drill and filled with cement..

Air in Space.. LOL
 
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Please someone find the GIF of a head bashing the desk... Some people just need to have their head drilled out with a Black and Decker drill and filled with cement..

Air in Space.. LOL



Pretty sure that was all on purpose. Sometimes it's hard to see sarcasm/satire in a textual form, but that was painfully obvious.
 
Pretty sure that was all on purpose. Sometimes it's hard to see sarcasm/satire in a textual form, but that was painfully obvious.

Unfortunately, she was serious. Went on to say that Hawaii was Jah God's chosen people and that is why Marijuana is legal and called everybody a racist.
 
New photos of Pluto show icy mountains 11,000 feet high

NASA has released the first up-close images ever of Pluto and its big moon Charon captured by the New Horizons spacecraft.

In the images of Pluto, icy mountains can be seen, with peaks jutting as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the surface of the icy body. They likely formed no more than 100 million years ago, which makes Pluto’s surface one of the youngest ever seen in the 4.56-billion-year-old solar system. It also suggests the mountainous region, which covers about 1 percent of Pluto’s surface, may still be geologically active today.

“Today, we get the first sampling of the scientific treasure collected during those critical moments, and I can tell you it dramatically surpasses those high expectations,” said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington.


NASA also released this incredible video zooming into the base of the heart-shaped feature on Pluto:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-photos-of-pluto-show-icy-mountains-11000-feet-high-2015-07-15

truly amazing indeed.
 
Science channel is having a hour show at 10 pm right now...
 
This is truly amazing what we can accomplish if we all work together.. No religion, no politics, No yelling.. Just the advancement of sciences.. Assume stuff..

Hopefully this craft will go down in history as one of the best like Cassini Huygens, The Voyagers 1 and 2.. Pioneer 10 and 11.. all of them..
 
Spectacular Pluto photos just the beginning

Scientists are analyzing a treasure trove of data from NASA's New Horizons space probe, which conducted its historic flyby of Pluto

Scientists are stunned at the incredible new images of the surface of Pluto, its largest moon Charon and its farthest-flung moon Hydra, which are just the tip of the scientific iceberg that will be sent back by NASA's New Horizons probe in the wake of its epic flyby.

New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto at 7:49 a.m. (1149 GMT) Tuesday morning (July 14), but it took almost 24 hours for scientists to get a sneak peek at the treasure trove of data that the probe picked up. It will take 16 months for the spacecraft to beam home the entire volume of information it collected during its historic Pluto encounter.



http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/0716/Spectacular-Pluto-photos-just-the-beginning
 
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