Pluto and Charon Surfaces in Living Color

[Baclava]

Last edited Sun Jul 5, 2015, 02:13 PM - Edit history (1)

getting closer

http://www.nasa.gov/nh/pluto-charon-surfaces-in-color


Hail robots!

Red-faced Pluto full of surprises




http://www.universetoday.com/121158/red-faced-pluto-full-of-surprises/

[Uncle Joe]

1. Cool.

Thanks for the thread, Baclava.

[Baclava]

3. Thanks to you! but this gets me riled up....That's a planet!

Did you click on the video?

Make Pluto a Planet again!

....I hath spoken

[Uncle Joe]

4. Actually it's a floor wax and a dessert topping.

[Baclava]

6. well maybe I'm just an excitable boy

but I got eyes

[shenmue]

7. Planet it is

[Fred Sanders]

8. With Charon almost the same size as Pluto - a strong argument for the first binary planetary system?

[Baclava]

12. The Earth/Moon system could be described as a binary planet

[Fred Sanders]

13. I would submit that Charon is much larger relative to Pluto:

[Baclava]

15. OK - you win the size matters point - but not by a lot

[hifiguy]

2. Cool! I am endlessly fascinated by astronomy.

And a heads up to other DUers with the same fascination:

Find Alex Filippenko's Teaching Company course "Introduction To Astonomy." It is marvelous. Easy to see why he was voted best prof on campus more than half a dozen times. The great ones make it look easy and Filippenko was born to teach. His enthusiasm is matched only by his clarity and his effortless command of highly complex material and his ability to make it completely comprehensible.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

5. If you look closely you can see Mike Huckabee keynoting the Pluto "Values Forum"....

...this weekend at the Charon Convention Center.

[brer cat]

9. I still get excited about space exploration

just as in 1969. That is a really cool movie.

[MrScorpio]

10. Hopefully, the native Plutonians are a friendly lot...

I wish that there's a way to tell them that we come in peace.

[pinboy3niner]

16. We should send them some of our new guacamole

[awoke_in_2003]

11. Hail science. K&R. nt

[Baclava]

14. Houston - we have a problem - Pluto Probe Went Into Safe Mode, And We Don't Know Why

The facts so far are sparse: the New Horizons spacecraft dropped out of contact with mission operations at 1:54pm on Saturday, July 4th, with communications reestablished by 3:15pm.

Sometime during that gap, the spacecraft’s onboard computers detected some yet-to-be-determined anomaly, flipped itself into safe mode, and started trying reinitiate contact with Earth using its backup computer.

Now it’s feeding us a steady stream of telemetry in an effort to help us puny Earthlings determine what went sideways, and is withholding science until we figure it out.

http://space.io9.com/the-pluto-probe-went-into-safe-mode-and-we-dont-know-w-1715824423

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