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Post by ping on Jul 15, 2015 13:24:22 GMT
This makes me happy For those of you who don't know, nine years ago a probe called "New Horizons" set off on an epic journey to visit the outer Solar System - the Kuiper Belt, which is the ring of dust, rocks and icy beyond the planets. One of the large rocks was getting some special attention, a rock called Pluto (ex-planet, now an ice-dwarf) After hitching a gravity-boost as it swung past Jupiter, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto yesterday, 14th June. The probe took a bunch of pictures of the surface of pluto - the only pictures we've ever seen, then sent an "I'm okay" message back to Earth before heading out on its one-way mission out of the Solar System. The pictures show some amazing details on the surface of Pluto, including a massive heart-shaped feature. Pluto looks like a happy little planetoid Incidentally, New Horizons also found that Pluto has an additional 4 moons that we didn't know about before. More images from this awesome adventure here: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/images/index.htmlSorry for the geek-out
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Post by Spangoid on Jul 15, 2015 13:40:35 GMT
(ex-planet, now an ice-dwarf) Pluto will ALWAYS be a planet in my mind! Amazing pictures, I do love all spacey stuff!
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Post by Azayles on Jul 15, 2015 15:20:56 GMT
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Post by ping on Jul 15, 2015 15:26:47 GMT
Yes, I figured he would And the What-If? too. We'd suspected that for a long while though, as he said the next What-If? was going to be posted at 7.59 on June 14th
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Post by pawlove on Jul 15, 2015 16:21:38 GMT
Pluto looks really adorable and happy
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Post by Azayles on Jul 15, 2015 16:31:25 GMT
Despite Pluto being reclassified as a dwarf-Pluto
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Post by pawlove on Jul 15, 2015 16:45:49 GMT
He is too happy to care
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