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Pluto New Horizons |OT| New images. Pluto/Charon still geologically active
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The different colours represent different elemental compounds (e.g., sulfur is one colour, CO2 is another, etc.). I fail to see how that's less interesting or worth ignoring.
ahhh so disappointing
looks boring
Well to be fair if you were expecting sprawling colors you were bound to be disappointed.
Agreed.
It's not fake in the sense it's a complete fabrication with no basis in reality, it's done to high the composition of the planet.
Most things in astronomy are less interesting in just the visible spectrum.
Charles Foster Kane
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ahhh so disappointing
looks boring
What? It looks very cool. This isn't a gas giant.
Lovely Salsa
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hey now
Earth looks amazing
We need to explore further, our solar system isn't cutting it
ahhh so disappointing
looks boring
Wouldn't matter to me if it was a smooth gray rock - the fact that we can see it at all, up close, from an object billions of miles away from Earth that *we* put up there specifically to go see it, is pretty damn cool.
Pluto is way out there, though. Its in the midst of the relatively heavily populated Kuiper Belt and scattered disc region.
Actually, smooth gray rock would be nuts. And frustrating for a lot of scientists. Would be one hell of a "well, that's interesting" moment for astronomy.
Besides, it's a dwarf planet precisely because it hasn't cleared out its own orbital path of debris.
That's fucking awesome. Money well spent IMO.
PjotrStroganov
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The thing is, its size tells us that it just didn't get much mass added by impacting meteorites. Also, in the off chance that a Kuiper body gets rocked and enters an orbit to the center of the solar system Pluto will probably won't be there to intercept it.
It does look though that the giant Pluto shape is the result of a massive impact and maybe created in the aftermath of the possible creation of Sharon. That is my guess.
Edit, NASA just said the moon looks to be older than Pluto. So they don't seem related like the Eath and Moon. I stand corrected.
"For perspective, New Horizons cost as much as 2 F-35 fighter jets, or about 5 hours of Social Security."
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Thanks. New desktop bg.
I was intrigued by this too. I kind of figured beforehand that it would be a huge impact crater from a large collision, wouldn't be surprised if we found one of the moons to be of similar composition. Then it would make sense the other compound is stuff that rained down after collision.
HellBlazer
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I assume it's a digitally blown up version of the tiny dot in the original photograph.
Yep, probably just a nearest-neighbor upscale of a low-resolution scan.
"For perspective, New Horizons cost as much as 2 F-35 fighter jets, or about 5 hours of Social Security."
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We don't have any color picture of Mercury?
That is a colour picture of Mercury.
This is amazing."For perspective, New Horizons cost as much as 2 F-35 fighter jets, or about 5 hours of Social Security."
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As said above, it is in color.
Here is another photo that you can see the slight brown/tan hues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(planet)#/media/File:Mercury_in_color_-_Prockter07-edit1.jpg
Eh, guess i'm used that every planets has color, so seeing something in black and white made me think otherwise. But yeah, that picture looks a little better.
"For perspective, New Horizons cost as much as 2 F-35 fighter jets, or about 5 hours of Social Security."
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How rare and fragile Earth is.
E-Cat
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Is Mercury really grey?"For perspective, New Horizons cost as much as 2 F-35 fighter jets, or about 5 hours of Social Security."
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I expected a mirror finish
We should get images with about 10 times the resolution sometimes tomorrow. It's a slow process however as the datastream is only about 1.5kb a second. Basically about the speed of a 28.8k modem. Remarkable considering how far away it is.
Yep and venus is the closet place to an actual hell you could find in the solar system. That planet is really, really messed up. Boil up up and crush you to death.
Dreams-Visions
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The first lander that we ever sent to Venus had a parachute failure, landed on its side, and spent its 20-minute life doing nothing but spamming temperature data back to Earth.
The sulfur clouds completely cover the surface, but underneath you have that copper volcanic land. I'm guessing it's not an actual photo but some kind of photo sensor or rendering.
I'm pretty sure it's a false colour image from a probe using radio waves to penetrate the atmosphere of the planet.
edit: Yup it's from the Magellan probe.
Parallax Scroll
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Those Venus landers were hardcore. Try and take a photo and send it back before you melt.
Space Monster
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ahhh so disappointing
looks boring
Well sure it's boring if you look at it with your puny human eyes. How are you going to appreciate the wonders of the night sky with those tiny little flesh orbs?
campfireweekend
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iirc, its what the planet would look like if we could see through the thick cloud cover.
HellBlazer
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That's correct. It's from the Magellan spacecraft in the early 90s.
Venus with the atmosphere looks a bit boring:
Ignatz Mouse
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That's the understatement of the year.
We as a species need to get our shit together...seriously.
DrForester
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Mr_Antimatter
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There is a certain irony that the planet named for War is a peaceful dust ball and the planet named for Love is quite literally hell.
RoninChaos
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There's an observatory in Villa Rica?
Insane Metal
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"For perspective, New Horizons cost as much as 2 F-35 fighter jets, or about 5 hours of Social Security."
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Amazing. I wish there was a 1080p image to use as bg...
Back in the day we thought there might be people on Venus. Venusians. A tropical planet! Hah..so much for that.
Overall, I am sure it was a gradual disappointment that we are the only intelligent beings in our solar system.
But hey, the views and planets are still super cool!
Overall, I am sure it was a gradual disappointment that we are the only intelligent beings in our solar system.
But hey, the views and planets are still super cool!
please Europa..have aliens!
Charles Foster Kane
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I want to believe!
eyeball_kid
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I think the USSR's Venera 13 lander did a pretty good job of capturing Venus's hellscape, especially considering this was 1982. The lander lasted for more than an hour.
The Cowboy
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I watched that Europa documentary, it clearly showed aliens on Europa - big ass ones that light up.
I really like Europa Report .
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