New Horizons: New Images

[deanm (Dean)]

"The New Horizons probe has at last returned some of the super-sharp pictures it took of Pluto during its historic flyby in July".

"The images released by the US space agency on Friday show details on the surface of the dwarf planet at a resolution better than 80m per pixel."

That's pretty amazing resolution considering closest-approach was ~12,500 km!

The Australian continent is around 4000 km West-East...

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35013190

[Shiraz (Ray)]

goodness gracious

thanks for posting Dean

[gary]

Thanks Dean,

Already posted a few minutes earlier in the New Horizons thread here -
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...&postcount=172

[deanm (Dean)]

Gary - I can't keep up!

Dean

[deanm (Dean)]

The results coming back from New Horizons are just amazing.

Many (me included) thought Pluto would be just a boring, snooker ball of ice.

Quite the contrary: it exhibits some of the most astonishing, diverse features of anywhere in the solar system - entirely unexpected.

Plains of nitrogen ice, mountains of water ice. On-going (or, at least, recent) terrain re-modelling. Cryo-vulcanism...

More interesting (read 'complicated') than our own moon - just a bit further away...!

Dean

[John K]

Some colour images have just been released .Just did a quick comparison with some of our own. Similarity is striking!!!