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Post by Ravenchamp on Apr 15, 2015 13:04:30 GMT -5
After 10 years of travel, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft acquired its first picture of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, in color on April 9. It’s the first color image ever made of the Pluto system by a spacecraft on approach. Neither Pluto nor Charon is well resolved here, but their distinctly different appearances can already be seen. Image via NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute earthsky.org/space/new-horizons-first-color-pic-of-pluto#.VS5Oo1MZcTQ.twitterClose flyby pass is expected in July  |
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Post by aboutwell on Apr 15, 2015 13:48:02 GMT -5
Very cool... keep us posted just in case we forget...
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Post by Ravenchamp on Apr 15, 2015 15:07:39 GMT -5
You bet. It's exciting stuff!
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Post by Bartman on Apr 23, 2015 20:54:17 GMT -5
Rendezvous is sometime in June or July I think. Heard abt it on the news a couple weeks ago and thought Damn, I remember watching the launch on NASA TV way back! That's almost a Decade ago! Where did the Time go?
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Post by aboutwell on Apr 23, 2015 21:50:41 GMT -5
No... I was not there for that launch... I was having dinner with someone that day...  |
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Post by highmc2 on Apr 23, 2015 22:31:50 GMT -5
The human race is an amazing species when we work together and stop trying to make other's think the same way and worship the same invisible man in the sky.
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Post by Ravenchamp on Apr 24, 2015 7:00:06 GMT -5
Imagine what humanity could do if had a total world space program instead of trying to destroy each other.
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Post by redleg on Apr 25, 2015 12:33:40 GMT -5
Imagine what humanity could do if had a total world space program instead of trying to destroy each other. We would never have gotten to the moon. Without some overarching force demanding cooperation, and funding, and able to force the funding, nothing would happen. We, as a species, are too egocentric and irascible to work together for something as esoteric as "space exploration". That's why it took a government to force the issue. |
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Post by Ravenchamp on Jun 16, 2015 12:35:13 GMT -5
 Update June 16, 2015 One Month from Pluto www.spacedaily.com/reports/One_Month_from_Pluto_New_Horizons_on_Track_All_Clear_and_Ready_for_Action_999.html Now within one month of the historic Pluto flyby, NASA's New Horizons team has executed a small but important course correction for the spacecraft, completed updated analyses of possible hazards in the Pluto system, and is picking up the pace of science-data collection. A 45-second thruster burst on June 14 refined New Horizons' trajectory toward Pluto, targeting the optimal aim point for the spacecraft's flight through the Pluto system. This was only the second targeting maneuver of New Horizons' approach to Pluto; Sunday's burst adjusted the spacecraft's velocity by just 52 centimeters per second, aiming it toward the desired close-approach target point approximately 7,750 miles above Pluto's surface. The maneuver was based on the latest radio tracking data on the spacecraft and range-to-Pluto measurements made by optical-navigation imaging of the Pluto system taken by New Horizons in recent weeks. |
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Post by aboutwell on Jun 16, 2015 15:09:09 GMT -5
...........the spacecraft was on a line to arrive about 470 miles (755 kilometers) away from the aim point at Pluto, some 84 seconds earlier than desired...........
.....the spacecraft about 2.95 billion miles from home, the radio transmissions from its communications system need nearly 4.5 hours to reach Earth.
New Horizons is now less than 22 million miles from the Pluto system
That's pretty good shooting...
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Post by Ravenchamp on Jun 16, 2015 17:51:01 GMT -5
Bullseye in these distance terms
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Post by Ravenchamp on Jul 7, 2015 18:38:34 GMT -5
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Post by Ravenchamp on Jul 9, 2015 10:14:32 GMT -5
On close approach now
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Post by Ravenchamp on Jul 9, 2015 10:14:44 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2015 10:59:19 GMT -5
Are we there yet?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2015 12:32:09 GMT -5
Are we there yet?
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Post by Ravenchamp on Jul 9, 2015 15:20:35 GMT -5
5 days away!so exciting
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2015 19:55:51 GMT -5
Are we there yet?
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Post by Ravenchamp on Jul 13, 2015 6:39:33 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2015 7:13:50 GMT -5
Are we there yet?
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Post by Ravenchamp on Jul 13, 2015 13:17:45 GMT -5
On the door step
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Post by Ravenchamp on Jul 25, 2015 9:42:58 GMT -5
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Post by aponderer on Jul 25, 2015 10:01:59 GMT -5
The Minions are using that haze to hide from the probe...  |
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Post by Bartman on Jul 28, 2015 21:54:16 GMT -5
Was amazed to hear that the info is sent back in a few bits per second. One of the spacecraft team said "we Wish it was as fast as 56K!" It's gonna be a Long Time for all the data to come back.
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