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Photo of Pluto May Show Cloud for 1st Time - senona - 06-06-2016 A newly-released image taken during New Horizons' flyby of Pluto shows the back lit dwarf planet in a detailed new light. The photo, captured just minutes after the spacecraft's closest approach with Pluto on July 14, 2015, reveals the world's atmosphere illuminated by the rays of the distant sun nearly 4 billion miles away. Quote:A spectacular new image of Pluto shows rugged mountains, nitrogen-ice plains and, perhaps, a big cloud scudding through the dwarf planet's exotic skies. NASA even described the view as the "twilight zone" of Pluto. This backlit Pluto photo was captured on July 14, 2015 by NASA’s New Horizons probe, shortly after its closest approach to the dwarf planet. Mountains, ice plains and a possible cloud are visible in the sunlit portion of the photo (top inset), while rugged topography is apparent on Pluto’s dark side (bottom inset).
I can't wait to see what else they discover about Pluto.
Pluto appears to be a world filled with fascinating geology that scientists are trying to figure out.
They are still waiting on more data to be downloaded, which may take a few more months.
Quote:New Horizons is still beaming flyby data home, and will continue to do so through this coming fall. (The probe is currently about 3.2 billion miles, or 5.15 billion km, from Earth; such a vast distance makes transmission rates slow, due to the significant weakening of New Horizons' radio signal.) Gorgeous 'Twilight Zone' Photo of Pluto May Show Cloud for 1st Time RE: Photo of Pluto May Show Cloud for 1st Time - guohua - 06-06-2016 It's it just Beautiful! What a Wonderful Little Planet, so full of surprises. RE: Photo of Pluto May Show Cloud for 1st Time - Sol - 06-06-2016 It's become a 'taken for granted' scenario when we get images like that but as I mentioned in one of Sky's thread on Pluto, we are SO fortunate to be the first ones in this planet's history to get to see close ups of this dwarf that is so far away that it's almost unimaginable... It is mindblowing. It really is ! RE: Photo of Pluto May Show Cloud for 1st Time - guohua - 07-15-2016 Some new releases for Pluto. Some Great Pictures Here: Link RE: Photo of Pluto May Show Cloud for 1st Time - guohua - 08-06-2016 They are still waiting for more images of Pluto and its largest moon Charon. But just thin about the distance Horizon traveled, 2.97 Billion miles and I understand Horizon is an additional 287 Millions miles from Pluto and still going Strong. How you may ask? A Small Nuclear Population engine. Quote:An ‘X’ formation appears on the surface of Pluto in one of the newly released photos taken by New Horizons for Nasa. Photograph: Nasa/JHUAPL/SwRI Quote:The new images show that the low-lying surface is not totally flat, but rather a mix of pitted areas, 10 to 25 miles wide, that the researchers call “cells”. The cells have ridged margins and raised centers, visible thanks to shadows cast by a low sun, and some cells appear separated by trench or canal formations. Source OK, but who's the guy/gal with the Snow Machine and is he/she broken down? RE: Photo of Pluto May Show Cloud for 1st Time - 727Sky - 08-06-2016 (08-06-2016, 12:09 AM)guohua Wrote: They are still waiting for more images of Pluto and its largest moon Charon. I was thinking it looked like a Plutonic Snail ? RE: Photo of Pluto May Show Cloud for 1st Time - guohua - 11-18-2016 Ah YES!, New videos of pluto and some very exciting stuff I think. Quote:Pluto may have an icy sea beneath its surfaceWatch the videos that are part of the article as a whole. Source |