Space Sciences Pluto!!!

[beancounter]

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/14/science/space/pluto-flyby.html?_r=0

 

[Second Summer]

I'm hoping for more and better images soon! What, are they using a modem from 2006 or something?!

 

[Second Summer]

Ah, here they are. including some pictures of the science team:
New Horizons Image Gallery | NASA

 

[Andy_T]

Yes, I heard about it earlier...

 

[beancounter]

Yes, I heard about it earlier...

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Blasphemy.

If you weren't a mod, I'd ban you.

 

[ledboots]

Ah, here they are. including some pictures of the science team:
New Horizons Image Gallery | NASA

Omg so cool!

 

[Mischief]

Very, very cool!

That must be such emotionally and intellectually rewarding work.

 

[Calliegirl]

Stephen Colbert and Neil deGrasse Tyson have a humorous discussion about Pluto.

 

[Tom L.]

^^^ ...although maybe it should be 10th rock from the sun, since Ceres is also now classed as a dwarf planet...

Ah, here they are. including some pictures of the science team:
New Horizons Image Gallery | NASA

Excellent images! And I love the bumper stickers some of the team are holding saying "My other vehicle is on its way to Pluto".

 

[PTree15]

Yes, I heard about it earlier...

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I love this!

 

[ledboots]

 

[Tom L.]

New Pluto 'Aerial Tour' Created From Probe Images | Video

Here's a neat simulated video, made from still images New Horizons took on its recent flyby. It's amazing that it will be more than a year before the probe finishes sending back all its data.