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Topics => Science, Technology, & Medicine => Topic started by: ToddF on February 17, 2015, 03:51:03 PM

Title: Pluto
Post by: ToddF on February 17, 2015, 03:51:03 PM
This one will be worth watching.  This is it.  The last planet (I'll never leave you, Pluto).  It all started when I was a little kid, sitting down at grandma and grandpa's house, watching the first pictures come in from Mars.  Think a picture loaded slowly at 28k?  Heh.  These things were coming down the screen at about a pixel a minute, it seemed.  Eventually all the planets through Neptune were visited.

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/ (http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/)

There she be, about 5 months out. 
Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: Libertas on February 18, 2015, 06:35:27 AM
Planetoid my arse...in my book it is still a planet!

Just another 173 million Km to go.  It will be interesting to see the image resolution as it grows closer.

If in July it finds a sign that says "Last chance for gas this solor system" I will chuckle.   ;D
Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: Glock32 on February 18, 2015, 10:30:04 AM
The probe is probably carrying some voter registration forms with it.  Just in case.
Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: Libertas on February 18, 2015, 11:52:29 AM
Absentee ballots too, no doubt.
Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: warpmine on February 23, 2015, 09:30:01 AM
Absentee ballots too, no doubt.
The miracle will be the USPS actually get them in time fro the election cycle. Can't get the ballots from the military but 3.5 billion so miles....no problem. ::rolllaughing::
Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: ToddF on April 15, 2015, 07:32:51 AM
(http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Science-Photos/pics/20150414_First_Color_Image_Ralph.png)

Took long enough but we're finally starting to get some pictures of the approach.
Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: Libertas on April 15, 2015, 08:02:24 AM
New Horizons snapshot...must be Charon along side...the other 4 satellites are dinky little buggers...

Closest distance is just 89 days away (http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/)!
Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: ToddF on June 18, 2015, 07:22:41 AM
Raw, unprocessed image.

(http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounter/data/pluto/level2/lor/jpeg/029682/lor_0296826898_0x630_sci_1.jpg)

Getting close.   ::popcorn::
Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: Libertas on June 18, 2015, 07:32:05 AM
Yup, mid July coming fast.

It's definitely and odd shaped little spherical.

This animation is pretty neat -

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/common/content/videos/dataMovies/061115.gif (http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/common/content/videos/dataMovies/061115.gif)
Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: ToddF on June 30, 2015, 07:53:04 AM
(http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounter/data/pluto/level2/lor/jpeg/029786/lor_0297860108_0x630_sci_1.jpg)

Growing and growing.   ::popcorn::
Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: Libertas on June 30, 2015, 08:17:30 AM
I wonder if there'll be any Plutorians about?

"Welcome to Pluto!"
"All Species Welcome...except Progressives!"
"Have a nice day!"

 ;D
Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: Pandora on June 30, 2015, 08:42:17 AM
I thought they were called Plutonians.
Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: Libertas on June 30, 2015, 08:48:43 AM
Plutonians sounds so...atomic...militaristic...

OK, I can go with that.   :D
Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: Pandora on June 30, 2015, 08:51:43 AM
So agreeable, Libs ......   ;)
Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: Libertas on June 30, 2015, 11:10:39 AM
 ::angel::
Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: Predator Don on June 30, 2015, 07:41:25 PM
I wonder if there'll be any Plutorians about?

"Welcome to Pluto!"
"All Species Welcome...except Progressives!"
"Have a nice day!"

 ;D

The progressives are on Uranus.
Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: ToddF on July 01, 2015, 06:07:17 AM
I wonder if there'll be any Plutorians about?

"Welcome to Pluto!"
"All Species Welcome...except Progressives!"
"Have a nice day!"

 ;D

The progressives are on Uranus.

Drilling for gas reserves. 

 ::exitstageleft::
Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: Libertas on July 01, 2015, 06:45:25 AM
I wonder if there'll be any Plutorians about?

"Welcome to Pluto!"
"All Species Welcome...except Progressives!"
"Have a nice day!"

 ;D

The progressives are on Uranus.

Drilling for gas reserves. 

 ::exitstageleft::

The moons around Uranus...must be those Trans lurking...

Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: ToddF on July 08, 2015, 02:28:15 PM
The computer burped a little bit and gave everyone an oh s*** moment, but back on line.

(http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounter/data/pluto/level2/lor/jpeg/029861/lor_0298615084_0x630_sci_1.jpg)

Wow.  It's really there, now.
Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: Libertas on July 08, 2015, 02:47:18 PM
Nice.

Now zoom in.
Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: Libertas on July 12, 2015, 07:33:08 PM
Jeesh, what did the Plutonians do to the place?  Looks all lumpy.

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/common/content/videos/dataMovies/061115.gif (http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/common/content/videos/dataMovies/061115.gif)

The Progs trash this place too?   ::facepalm::
Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: ToddF on July 13, 2015, 07:35:34 AM
I think that's an old picture and the lumpiness was just a product of the computer enhancement.

(http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Science-Photos/pics/071215_Pluto_Alone.png)

Plenty round.   ::popcorn::
Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: ToddF on July 14, 2015, 01:53:08 PM
(http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Science-Photos/pics/P_LORRI_FULLFRAME_COLOR.png)

Uff da!   ::newyear::
Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: IronDioPriest on July 14, 2015, 02:14:12 PM
Amazing image.
Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: Libertas on July 14, 2015, 02:44:18 PM
Funky lookin' thing, isn't it?

Looks like 5 hours till the next download...

Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: ToddF on July 15, 2015, 07:19:28 AM
The good news is that NH phoned home!  Phone home...phonehome...

(http://i717.photobucket.com/albums/ww173/prestonjjrtr/Smileys/Aliens/alien28.gif)

Now the real show starts, as we download all the data over the next year and a half.
Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: Libertas on October 09, 2015, 07:08:09 AM
(http://i3.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/article6598554.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/blue_skies_on_pluto-final-2.png)

(http://i4.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article6468043.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/JS72362167.jpg)

(http://i3.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/article6598696.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/context_map3-final.jpg)

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/blue-skies-pluto-nasa-new-6598508 (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/blue-skies-pluto-nasa-new-6598508)

Blues skies, atmosphere...water ice...

Man, we can colonize and mine the whole solar system...if we only had the will...

Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: ToddF on October 09, 2015, 09:04:45 AM
The things we did, before NASA became a Muslim Outreach Organization...
Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: Libertas on October 09, 2015, 10:41:04 AM
Aye...

(sigh)
Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: warpmine on October 09, 2015, 04:58:40 PM
The things we did, before NASA became a Muslim Outreach Organization...
sh*t, for the last two decades they've been hard at work peddling AGW. The last great mission program was that of Apollo. Pioneer, Viking and Voyager were certainly successful but even then the great NASA was swirling in the toilet.
Title: Re: Pluto
Post by: Libertas on January 01, 2019, 02:39:14 PM
New Horizons setting new distance records -

A NASA spacecraft on New Year's Day flew by an object farther than any spacecraft has before — 4 billion miles from Earth.

NASA received a signal from the New Horizons spacecraft Tuesday morning that it had reached a small space object known as Ultima Thule 10 hours earlier.

Team members gathered at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, home to Mission Control, cheer upon receiving the signal, which took so long to reach them because the small, icy object is 4 billion miles from the Earth and 1 billion miles from Pluto.

The full scope of observations made by New Horizons will take nearly two years to beam back to Earth.

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasa-s-new-horizons-spacecraft-signals-most-distant-object-ever-n953546 (https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasa-s-new-horizons-spacecraft-signals-most-distant-object-ever-n953546)

Two years is a long time...perhaps somebody will be at the controls to receive it...