PLUTO, BITCHES

i didn't know it was so small

  On 7/23/2015 at 4:16 AM, yek said:

i didn't know it was so small

and racist

hi guys. meet pluto.

its got a sad eye and a coelacanth in it bottom left

Nitrogen glaciers for most IDM 2016 imo

  On 7/24/2015 at 9:20 PM, lala said:

its got a sad eye and a coelacanth in it bottom left

ha, my first thought as well.

  On 7/24/2015 at 9:48 PM, Timothy Forward said:

Nitrogen glaciers for most IDM 2016 imo

with giant fuckin coelacanth in it

cya

  On 7/24/2015 at 10:18 PM, lala said:

 

  On 7/24/2015 at 9:48 PM, Timothy Forward said:

Nitrogen glaciers for most IDM 2016 imo

 

with giant fuckin coelacanth in it

 

It's an extra terrestrial hydrocarbon helter skelter

Someone explain the nitrogen glacier to me. I read some tweets about it yesterday but I have no idea what it actually means

It's so cold that nitrogen can form somekind of glacier like structures.

what's cool is that we're still going to be receiving new Pluto pics & data from the probe for another year. supposedly they're mostly receiving diagnostic stuff now & the bulk of the images won't start coming in until September.

Must've been a busy few hours for the thing during the flyby. Either that or it must have a shitty dial up connection out there to take so long :D

it turns out the wireless out there sucks

not sure if you're being serious, but yeah, the bandwidth is very low (and the latency is obviously pretty high) - the way the mission was designed, it's taken a lot of photos and essentially sent back thumbnails. the scientists decide what looks interesting and these pics get sent back first in full resolution.

add to this the fact there's a number of cameras (low-res true colour, high-res B/W) and we probably won't get to see the really interesting stuff like the mass effect relay until september or so.

The next mission-pod will need to carry an iphone on a selfie-stick and a direct feed into instagram to keep me interested.

*unfriends new horizons *

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AbiygSo478

new images from pluto

nice!

hi-res (nasa page)

https://newhorizonsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/pluto-a-synth-odyssey

holy fuck, this is one of the best space pictures i've seen

  On 9/18/2015 at 3:10 AM, very honest said:

holy fuck, this is one of the best space pictures i've seen

 

 

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no joke. that is a breathtaking photo.

whoa

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The newest high-resolution images of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons are both dazzling and mystifying, revealing a multitude of previously unseen topographic and compositional details. The image below -- showing an area near the line that separates day from night -- captures a vast rippling landscape of strange, aligned linear ridges

amazing