Thank you for animating this at a reasonable speed unlike that other gif that's been floating around.
Also, you should post this to /r/space
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Pluto New Horizons |OT| New images. Pluto/Charon still geologically active
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Thank you for animating this at a reasonable speed unlike that other gif that's been floating around.
Also, you should post this to /r/space
Are those other specks the other moons?
Ran into issues doing just that... looks like my lockout has expired:
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/3d29y6/new_horizons_animated_view_of_its_approach_to/
Reposting for new page:
I don't know! There was a speck in frame 43 that I wasn't sure what the deal was, but it came from NASA, so I left it:
Insane Metal
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Consider yourself hugged, even if you don't want to. That is beautiful. Thank you!
DrForester
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Wow, I can't wait to see the pictures from the next few days.
How long will they continue photographing Pluto after the flyby on Tuesday? Throughout the week?
How long will they continue photographing Pluto after the flyby on Tuesday? Throughout the week?
Yeah, for sure! I thought it was neat and figured some Gaffers may too!
Does anyone know where I can look more into how New Horizons is communicating with us? I've never really looked into it. Sending information billions of miles is a bit crazy. In depth articles welcome if anyone has them!
Sectorseven
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How exactly do they connect to the satellite? Is it encrypted or could any hacker with a satellite dish tap into it?
You would need some serious, multi-million dollar array of satellite dishes to have a hope of establishing communication!
NASA's Deep Space Network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Deep_Space_Network
Mostly the moons, I think. From the simulation I saw, it won't be photographing much once its past, mostly because it won't be able to see much. It'll be on the dark side forever after that. I assume some shots through the atmosphere to check composition and such (Pluto does have an atmosphere?), but probably not much else. It's going to be taking a shitton of pictures over the next couple of days, though, it'll take time to transmit them all back.
eyeball_kid
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More precisely, it'll take over a year to transmit all the Pluto data back because of the long distance and low data rate.
https://twitter.com/NewHorizons2015/status/620531726889132032
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu
And from the press release, the milestone of less than one million miles to Pluto happened last night.
Rabbi_Vole
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If it fails to take any additional photos tomorrow, will everyone be satisfied with what its accomplished?
The Chosen One
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Posting to subscribe.
Can't wait for even more hi-res shots!
Can't wait for even more hi-res shots!
L.B. Jeffries
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I already know what's on planet Yuggoth. Mostly crab people, some elder cities, and some brains in jars that realize they may have overestimated the value of infinite knowledge.
Lovely Salsa
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I see no city lights.....chances are nothing is there 
hobblygobbly
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Not with this or the curiosity rover or any interplanetary vehicle.
The reason is because you won't be able to even establish a connection, NASA can do it because it has access to the DSN (Deep Space Network), otherwise there is no way to communicate. Actual communication is not encrypted itself. NASA doesn't need it because nothing important is being sent (like secret data etc) and nobody will be able to access it in any way because they don't have access to the DSN. Theoretically, you could build a DSN yourself but that is incredibly expensive and impossible to hide due to size and the geographical placements they need to be in so it has a lot of political issues as well.
It's more probable to get unauthorised access to the DSN itself somehow. Even if countries like Russia or China managed to build their own DSN strong enough for these missions (and remember, these can't just be in their own political geography for proper coverage) to be able to communicate with interplanetary vehicles, it'll expose them (no way to hide who did it), and there's nothing to gain economically or scientifically considering that these rovers, probes, etc have instruments from collaboration with multiple countries. It'll just be an unnecessary political fallout with no gain for anyone. So while some countries have DSNs, it's not on the same level as NASAs, and even if they were, interfering with a NASA mission would expose you and gain you nothing.
Basically as a result for now it's a non-issue due to how the infrastructure works and the requirement for very specialised, large, expensive equipment to communicate that far. Even if a country managed to build a DSN that was able to communicate, it'll expose them and have a huge political issue and it would all be for nothing because space exploration is a very international collaborative effort, research and data is shared, instruments are made by multiple countries, etc. There is only one country I think in the world that would do it just to piss everyone off and that's North Korea but North Korea's not building a DSN any time soon. The international scientific community surrounding space exploration in any form is very collaborative so there's no incentive really for any country to be malicious.
New Horizons will go dark during its flyby to maximize the 22-hour window it has for gathering data. So uh probably no pictures until Wednesday or Thursday.
*New Horizons
3.1 million km
It's watching us getting closer.
LookAtMeGo
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We are so close. 9 and a half years, 3.26 billion miles. Holy moley. Tomorrow is the big day!!
Lionheart1827
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Haha, I was thinking the same thing.
Nice.
sono
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Wonderful! Goosebumps...
The Sum of Zero
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abstract alien
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It's larger!? Performing when it counts. That's the Pluto I know.
sono
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Still time to correct this change before the year is out !
Orbis Tabula
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No one else is scared by that? It means Pluto is growing, dammit! Upset about the dwarf planet jilting, Pluto has been working out and is back for revenge.
Mengy
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Yeah, but don't expect too many pictures until the end of the week, and even then pictures will be slowly trickling in over the next several weeks due to data packet limitations. Still, we should be in for some awesome revelations within a few days!
gutterboy44
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Things like this really help you appreciate both the vastness of space and how insane it is that humans have achieved anything at all in space.
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