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On 17/07/15 19:30, Samuel Benge wrote:
> NASA's New Horizons probe reached Pluto the other day:
> http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/index.html
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> So we finally get to see Pluto and Charon up close! :) :) :)
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As well as Hydra, Nyx, Styx and Kerberos
My mind is blowing (albeit at 2 Kb/s)
John
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Doctor John <j.g### [at] gmail com> wrote:
> On 17/07/15 19:30, Samuel Benge wrote:
> > NASA's New Horizons probe reached Pluto the other day:
> > http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/index.html
> >
> > So we finally get to see Pluto and Charon up close! :) :) :)
> >
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> As well as Hydra, Nyx, Styx and Kerberos
>
> My mind is blowing (albeit at 2 Kb/s)
>
Hehe. How long will it take to get all the data back to Earth? A year?
While we're waiting, there'll also be new stuff coming in from the Dawn Mission
http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/
which will likely include more detailed images of this:
http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news-detail.html?id=4633
Spectrographic analysis will hopefully clue us in about the nature of those
bright spots...
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