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[Tehalemi]

omg Charon!

 

[Blunoise]

Is this real! Man it's so crazy to see these huge objects are like million miles away

 

[Azulsky]

Is this real! Man it's so crazy to see these huge objects are like million miles away

Pluto is ~4.7 Billion miles away.

 

[Schrade]

Hey.. she pronounced it as Karen.

 

[Josh7289]

I NEED MORE RESOLUTION direct-feed please my god this is awesome

 

[Xun]

Here we go!

 

[Charles Foster Kane]

They're like kids. Love them.

 

[nny]

What you talking about...that is clearly Pluto's head.

 

[The Elite]

That zoom.

 

[Chuck]

wow

 

[Dai101]

ENHANCE!

 

[nny]

Wow, enhance works in real life! P

 

[DrM]

This is why I loved remote sensing classes at college

 

[Fine Ham Abounds]

It's Godzilla's skin

That's not a planet, it's a lizard

 

[GK86]

Should've named it: the Heart of Tombaugh.

 

[BrettWeir]

New shirt/bumper sticker

"Craters happen"

/sorry dad joke.

 

[MrBigBoy]

Amazing photos!

But wait, how old did he say Pluto is?

 

[Disorientator]

 

[Blunoise]

Pluto is ~4.7 Billion miles away.

Come on now I am not trying to be factual just saying it's amazing to see things from so far away. No need to be a "smarty" about it

 

[AmyS]

 

[Woody Invincible]

I see a skeleton army.

 

[Ithil]

So Pluto is a geologically active world.

 

[Fine Ham Abounds]

Welp, a small taste, but an odd discovery for sure. This is pretty interesting.

 

[Azulsky]

Come on now I am not trying to be factual just saying it's amazing to see things from so far away. No need to be a "smarty" about it

It is amazing. I was just being pedantic

 

[GK86]

So Pluto is a geologically active world.

Damn, Pluto is fascinating.

 

[MrBigBoy]

So Pluto is less than 100 million years old, and has no kraters.

 

[Seanspeed]

Looks like a giant ass crater on the right side of that Charon image.

 

[Blunoise]

It is amazing. I was just being pedantic

Lol it's all good. It's just great that we can witness this in our lifetime.....now let's get prepared before Pluto unleashes it's havoc upon the solar system

 

[gutshot]

New images online here: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/images/index.html

So Pluto is less than 100 million years old, and has no kraters.

Pluto itself isn't that young. That particular mountain range is that young.

 

[Ithil]

So Pluto is less than 100 million years old, and has no kraters.

No, Pluto is billions of years old. He meant that region of mountains is less than 100 million years old, meaning Pluto is geologically active (unlike, say Earth's Moon).

 

[sphinx]

was I the only one with moisty eyes towards the end of the presentation???

we humans suck sometimes... but sometimes... damn.

 

[owlbeak]

Amazing. Full mosaic is going to be mind blowing!

 

[pulsemyne]

So much science from just a few images. Great stuff. It's current surface being about 100 million years old is really amazing. God only knows how it's geologically active.

 

[Raticus79]

Looks like a giant ass crater on the right side of that Charon image.

They said it's a giant chasm 5-6 miles deep. You can see space through it.

 

[MrBigBoy]

Pluto itself isn't that young. That particular mountain range is that young.

No, Pluto is billions of years old. He meant that region of mountains is less than 100 million years old, meaning Pluto is geologically active (unlike, say Earth's Moon).

Oh, thanks for correcting me.

 

[KINGofCRA5H]

this is all so fascinating

 

[Seanspeed]

They said it's a giant chasm 5-6 miles deep. You can see space through it.

Very cool.

I should be able to check out the conference here soon.

 

[Dai101]

Looks like a giant ass crater on the right side of that Charon image.

They said it's a giant chasm 5-6 miles deep. You can see space through it.

There's a yo' mama joke waiting to be told.

 

[nny]

All these questions on theories and explanations...they just got some of the data and are still getting more.

 

[Fenderputty]

How do mountains on Pluto form? Especially "youthful" ones. While that term is relative, I would imagine pluto isn't seismically active with a warm interior and moving plates and faults, like earth.

 

[Aiii]

Pluto is stunningly beautiful. I wish we could have landed a rover on it and explore it all. What a shame we won't get to do that for what I'm sure is another long while.

 

[A_Gorilla]

Pluto should be made an honorary planet.

Fuck those NASA eggheads.

 

[Rabbi_Vole]

Looks like cellulite.

 

[The Elite]

Pluto is stunningly beautiful. I wish we could have landed a rover on it and explore it all. What a shame we won't get to do that for what I'm sure is another long while.

New Mass Effect DLC.

 

[KarmaCow]

How do mountains on Pluto form? Especially "youthful" ones. While that term is relative, I would imagine pluto isn't seismically active with a warm interior and moving plates and faults, like earth.

That's why it's surprising. The mountains aren't pure rock and are more icy but it still seems to geologically active enough to not be flattened and covered in craters.

 

[AmyS]

Not enough balloons popping.

 

[gutshot]

How do mountains on Pluto form? Especially "youthful" ones. While that term is relative, I would imagine pluto isn't seismically active with a warm interior and moving plates and faults, like earth.

Nobody knows yet. Until a few hours ago, scientists didn't even think such a thing was possible.

 

[Ithil]

How do mountains on Pluto form? Especially "youthful" ones. While that term is relative, I would imagine pluto isn't seismically active with a warm interior and moving plates and faults, like earth.

This is something they have yet to determine. This is only one small image of a small area of the planet, which has already revealed a lot of new info.
They only found out this stuff this morning.

 

[GK86]

Pluto should be made an honorary planet.

Fuck those NASA eggheads.

The IAU is who decides what are planets.

Not enough balloons popping.

Bomba.

 

[Vyrance]

If Pluto is planet then Charon should be too in my opinion, since they act more like a binary system