New Horizons getting closer to Pluto

[Nexus69 (Tom)]

Great pics...looking forward to more

[pluto (Hugh)]

It's very well done

Bjorn posted some extra info with it here: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/i...dpost&p=225341

[multiweb (Marc)]

Yeah that was awesome!

[RichardJ (Richard)]

NASA Pluto flyby animation
See http://space.io9.com/whoa-this-is-ex...pas-1727829437

RichardJ

[RichardJ (Richard)]

Just watched a very good documentary about the New Horizons mission by Sky at Night on you tube.
See www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCjNON1kTKU

RichardJ

[ralph1]

The target New Horizons would fly to has been confirmed, assuming it gets funding
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily...ssion-pt1.html

[RichardJ (Richard)]

New LORRI images set to be posted Sept 11th.

RichardJ

[pluto (Hugh)]

And here they are: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/S...p?gallery_id=2

[ZeroID (Brent)]

'Dunes' on Pluto ..

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci...10-gjk4ky.html

[RichardJ (Richard)]

Originally Posted by pluto

And here they are: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/S...p?gallery_id=2

My goodness they are fabulous!

RichardJ

[AussieTrooper (Ben)]

The top one looks an awful lot like the 'canali'

[pluto (Hugh)]

More added here: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounter/index.php

And this guy has done a nice stitch of the full globe, from those images, here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/132160...in/dateposted/

[pluto (Hugh)]

WOW, I'm speachless.
We knew there's be some great images but this is beyond what I'd dare to expect
15 minutes after closest approach:
http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/fi...15-final_0.png

Article here:
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-wo...cklit-panorama

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Blown away! When I consider distance, surface composition & terrain, degree of difficulty and just plain aesthetics, this latest image is one of the best planetary images of all time IMHO! Just wow!

[pluto (Hugh)]

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

Blown away! When I consider distance, surface composition & terrain, degree of difficulty and just plain aesthetics, this latest image is one of the best planetary images of all time IMHO! Just wow!

I was thinking the same thing, so I started a thread to get some other suggestions: http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...d.php?t=138713

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

Originally Posted by pluto

WOW, I'm speachless.
We knew there's be some great images but this is beyond what I'd dare to expect
15 minutes after closest approach:
http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/fi...15-final_0.png

Article here:
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-wo...cklit-panorama

that is exactly the type if images i was hoping for. if the nasa link doesn't work (which hasn't for me) try http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/S...AL-9-17-15.jpg

truly spectacular!

[RichardJ (Richard)]

Absolutely magnificent !!!

RichardJ

[pluto (Hugh)]

More wow - a colourised version (using earlier colour MVIC imagery) by one of the members on UMSF:
http://postimg.org/image/g4c7i2si1/full/

[RichardJ (Richard)]

Originally Posted by pluto

More wow - a colourised version (using earlier colour MVIC imagery) by one of the members on UMSF:
http://postimg.org/image/g4c7i2si1/full/

Fantastic Hugh. Thanks for the link.
Still more to come!

Richard.

[pluto (Hugh)]

Originally Posted by RichardJ

Fantastic Hugh. Thanks for the link.
Still more to come!

Richard.

I know, a whole year of downlink! - we've barely scratched the surface of what was captured during the flyby!