MaverickSawyer
Acolyte of the Probe
When was this taken?
When was this taken?
Of course, I'm still around here, 80mileshigh. I've been following almost every minute and image. This is as exciting as watching John Young fly over New Brunswick in Gemini when I was a kid.
Fascinating how each major body in the system has its own unique characteristics, isn't it?
...Somehow i find reality hard to accept here...
A new astronomical body was found that is not yet another shade of grey...
That... never happened to me before.
I can't shake the feeling that the picture is fake, false-colour...
it probably looks false color because the color data is from a lower resolution data. I'm sure it'll look much more natural when the color and b/w imagery are more consistently recorded
Remember that there is a conference (NASA TV) in 30 minutes.
Prepare your eyes for amazement!
So...um...wow.
This animation combines various observations of Pluto over the course of several decades. The first frame is a digital zoom-in on Pluto as it appeared upon its discovery by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 (image courtesy Lowell Observatory Archives). The other images show various views of Pluto as seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope beginning in the 1990s and NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2015. The final sequence zooms in to a close-up frame of Pluto released on July 15, 2015.