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knockoff nige Jul 8th 2015 9:07 pm
Pictures of Pluto
 
I think it's amazing that in a matter of months we'll be seeing the best ever photos of Pluto take by the New Horizon craft/ship whatever. About 7.5 billion kilometres away and it transmits photos back at about 56k/s. How does it even do that? How can we still have communication to an object that far away and how does its batteries last as long as nearly 10 years?

Personally, I'd send a million of them up with slightly different course and with a massive pixel camera on each so that they could create a half ring around Pluto and record a bullet time half orbit of it. Actually, I'd do that to Saturn first as that's a bloody cool looking planet (according to the movie Interstellar) but would take a few more cameras.

Pluto comes into focus - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Beoz Jul 8th 2015 9:33 pm
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by knockoff nige (Post 11695400)
I think it's amazing that in a matter of months we'll be seeing the best ever photos of Pluto take by the New Horizon craft/ship whatever. About 7.5 billion kilometres away and it transmits photos back at about 56k/s. How does it even do that? How can we still have communication to an object that far away and how does its batteries last as long as nearly 10 years?

Personally, I'd send a million of them up with slightly different course and with a massive pixel camera on each so that they could create a half ring around Pluto and record a bullet time half orbit of it. Actually, I'd do that to Saturn first as that's a bloody cool looking planet (according to the movie Interstellar) but would take a few more cameras.

Pluto comes into focus - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Yeah the comms and distance thing is pretty amazing. Especially when the tech is 10 years old.

GarryP Jul 8th 2015 9:42 pm
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by knockoff nige (Post 11695400)
I think it's amazing that in a matter of months we'll be seeing the best ever photos of Pluto take by the New Horizon craft/ship whatever. About 7.5 billion kilometres away and it transmits photos back at about 56k/s. How does it even do that? How can we still have communication to an object that far away and how does its batteries last as long as nearly 10 years?

Personally, I'd send a million of them up with slightly different course and with a massive pixel camera on each so that they could create a half ring around Pluto and record a bullet time half orbit of it. Actually, I'd do that to Saturn first as that's a bloody cool looking planet (according to the movie Interstellar) but would take a few more cameras.

Pluto comes into focus - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
In order:
  • Encounter is in less than a week on the 14th July. It will take a while to send back all the data it gathers, but I'd expect to see some pics much sooner than that, like within a week.
  • It does it with a transmitter, error correction codes, and the deep space network - and I think the data rate might be lower than that.
  • It's powered by a nuclear power source (RTG). The reason it works at all is because of that, and the reason Philae has been dormant for so long is after the Challenger explosion people got twitchy about such launches.
  • You don't need a million spacecraft, you just need ones that have long lifespans and different ways of getting to the planets (eg solar sails, ion propulsion, VASIMR). However nobody is putting big money into space, they are more concentrated on giving it to bankers.
http://also.kottke.org/misc/images/pluto-closeup-02.jpg

This is the last time you are likely to be part of seeing a planet close up, for the first time.

mikelincs Jul 8th 2015 9:43 pm
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knockoff nige Jul 8th 2015 9:50 pm
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by GarryP (Post 11695421)
In order:
  • Encounter is in less than a week on the 14th July. It will take a while to send back all the data it gathers, but I'd expect to see some pics much sooner than that, like within a week.
  • It does it with a transmitter, error correction codes, and the deep space network - and I think the data rate might be lower than that.
  • It's powered by a nuclear power source (RTG). The reason it works at all is because of that, and the reason Philae has been dormant for so long is after the Challenger explosion people got twitchy about such launches.
  • You don't need a million spacecraft, you just need ones that have long lifespans and different ways of getting to the planets (eg solar sails, ion propulsion, VASIMR). However nobody is putting big money into space, they are more concentrated on giving it to bankers.
http://also.kottke.org/misc/images/pluto-closeup-02.jpg

This is the last time you are likely to be part of seeing a planet close up, for the first time.
The million spacecraft was just for the bullet time movie ala Matrix which would be a massive waste of money but pretty cool result if it could be pulled off.

Next big thing, Fibre to the Planet.

knockoff nige Jul 8th 2015 9:51 pm
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by mikelincs (Post 11695422)
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Strangely, I didn't see this coming.

GarryP Jul 8th 2015 9:54 pm
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by knockoff nige (Post 11695429)
The million spacecraft was just for the bullet time movie ala Matrix which would be a massive waste of money but pretty cool result if it could be pulled off.

Next big thing, Fibre to the Planet.
Only really need 3-4 cameras to pull out bullet time type effects today.

You know there is an Interplanetary Internet, don't you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet

mikelincs Jul 8th 2015 9:59 pm
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by knockoff nige (Post 11695431)
Strangely, I didn't see this coming.
It was my immediate, possibly childish, thought as soon as I saw the title.

knockoff nige Jul 8th 2015 10:00 pm
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by GarryP (Post 11695432)
Only really need 3-4 cameras to pull out bullet time type effects today.

You know there is an Interplanetary Internet, don't you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet
Of course I know about it, I'm always skyping my cousins on the other planets.

To bullet time the orbit of a planet whilst capturing the cloud stillness, it would take more than 3 or 4 cameras I would think. No point in stitching pictures from different times when you can send up millions of go pros.

knockoff nige Jul 8th 2015 10:02 pm
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by mikelincs (Post 11695435)
It was my immediate, possibly childish, thought as soon as I saw the title.
Glad Horizon isn't going to Uranus.

Beaverstate Jul 8th 2015 10:07 pm
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by knockoff nige (Post 11695437)
Glad Horizon isn't going to Uranus.
I quickly looked for the thumbs up button. Ha!

Amazulu Jul 8th 2015 10:10 pm
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by knockoff nige (Post 11695400)
I think it's amazing that in a matter of months we'll be seeing the best ever photos of Pluto take by the New Horizon craft/ship whatever. About 7.5 billion kilometres away and it transmits photos back at about 56k/s. How does it even do that? How can we still have communication to an object that far away and how does its batteries last as long as nearly 10 years?

Personally, I'd send a million of them up with slightly different course and with a massive pixel camera on each so that they could create a half ring around Pluto and record a bullet time half orbit of it. Actually, I'd do that to Saturn first as that's a bloody cool looking planet (according to the movie Interstellar) but would take a few more cameras.

Pluto comes into focus - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
The ingenuity of western civilisation is awesome

It uses plutonium for power and deep space radio comms is pretty straightforward

Pity it can't launch a probe to impact pluto

GarryP Jul 8th 2015 10:48 pm
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by knockoff nige (Post 11695436)
Of course I know about it, I'm always skyping my cousins on the other planets.

To bullet time the orbit of a planet whilst capturing the cloud stillness, it would take more than 3 or 4 cameras I would think. No point in stitching pictures from different times when you can send up millions of go pros.
3D feature extraction, object reconstruction, and texturing. All you need is enough simultaneous images to get good coverage. Particularly easy for nice regular, round objects like planets (eg each 90 or 120 deg), most mo-cap studios use more because of concave shapes and occultation. How do you think they do satellite weather images?

Google are hard at work trying to turn their streetview images into 3D objects for nice smooth moving around, etc.

You can even do this bullet time via 3D reconstruction on smartphones - 'Bullet Time' App Lets Ordinary Smartphones Take Photos Like In 'The Matrix' | Gadgets | Australian Popular Science

Originally Posted by knockoff nige (Post 11695437)
Glad Horizon isn't going to Uranus.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=54c_1319310704

knockoff nige Jul 8th 2015 11:08 pm
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by GarryP (Post 11695473)
3D feature extraction, object reconstruction, and texturing. All you need is enough simultaneous images to get good coverage. Particularly easy for nice regular, round objects like planets (eg each 90 or 120 deg), most mo-cap studios use more because of concave shapes and occultation. How do you think they do satellite weather images?

Google are hard at work trying to turn their streetview images into 3D objects for nice smooth moving around, etc.

You can even do this bullet time via 3D reconstruction on smartphones - 'Bullet Time' App Lets Ordinary Smartphones Take Photos Like In 'The Matrix' | Gadgets | Australian Popular Science


http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=54c_1319310704
That's not really what I mean though. Right now we have amazing artist impressions of Pluto. I mean an actual 4k bullet time video without needing to reconstruct. Google already has street view and aerial photos to develop 3d reconstruction but there's a certain amount of stitching that makes it not quite real, even if we can't tell. What I'm saying would be an actual split second of time around Pluto, no pretence.

But like I say, a massive waste of money for something less important than royal commissions into unions.

Beoz Jul 8th 2015 11:22 pm
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by GarryP (Post 11695473)
3D feature extraction, object reconstruction, and texturing. All you need is enough simultaneous images to get good coverage. Particularly easy for nice regular, round objects like planets (eg each 90 or 120 deg), most mo-cap studios use more because of concave shapes and occultation. How do you think they do satellite weather images?

Google are hard at work trying to turn their streetview images into 3D objects for nice smooth moving around, etc.

You can even do this bullet time via 3D reconstruction on smartphones - 'Bullet Time' App Lets Ordinary Smartphones Take Photos Like In 'The Matrix' | Gadgets | Australian Popular Science


http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=54c_1319310704
Easy stuff these days.

Pix4D, Acute3D among others.

Was playing with Acute3D last week. 3D model was very impressive.

GarryP Jul 9th 2015 12:03 am
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by knockoff nige (Post 11695486)
What I'm saying would be an actual split second of time around Pluto, no pretence.
This guy promises to update this WebGl view of Pluto with data as it comes in : Pluto Globe (you will need an up to date browser)

I'm sure others will be doing the complete Pluto system.

Swerv-o Jul 9th 2015 11:20 am
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by GarryP (Post 11695421)
In order:
  • You don't need a million spacecraft, you just need ones that have long lifespans and different ways of getting to the planets (eg solar sails, ion propulsion, VASIMR). However nobody is putting big money into space, they are more concentrated on giving it to bankers.

We spent over a trillion dollars on war in the middle east, which doesn't really seem to have achieved a great deal. I often wonder how our space program would look if we had invested it there instead :(


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GarryP Jul 9th 2015 12:49 pm
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by Swerv-o (Post 11695895)
We spent over a trillion dollars on war in the middle east, which doesn't really seem to have achieved a great deal. I often wonder how our space program would look if we had invested it there instead :(
I blame millions vs billions vs trillions.

We hear the 'illions and are incapable of successfully comparing them, particularly over time.

New Horizons cost ~$700 million over 15 years.
Budget of CSIRO is ~$1.2 billion
The budget of NASA is ~$19 billion
The amount of unaccounted for money in Iraq/Afghanistan is ~$14 billion
Australian cost of helping out Dubya in Iraq ~$2.5 billion
Cost of US involvement in Iraq/Afghanistan ~$6 trillion

Thus you could have 8571 x New Horizons missions for the cost of Dubya trying to strut his stuff around the middle east.

Swerv-o Jul 9th 2015 12:51 pm
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by GarryP (Post 11695936)
I blame millions vs billions vs trillions.

We hear the 'illions and are incapable of successfully comparing them, particularly over time.

New Horizons cost ~$700 million over 15 years.
Budget of CSIRO is ~$1.2 billion
The budget of NASA is ~$19 billion
The amount of unaccounted for money in Iraq/Afghanistan is ~$14 billion
Australian cost of helping out Dubya in Iraq ~$2.5 billion
Cost of US involvement in Iraq/Afghanistan ~$6 trillion

Thus you could have 8571 x New Horizons missions for the cost of Dubya trying to strut his stuff around the middle east.

We could have colonised Mars for that money :(


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GarryP Jul 9th 2015 12:58 pm
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by Swerv-o (Post 11695939)
We could have colonised Mars for that money :(
We could have buried every two-bit politician, head first, in the martian soil for quite a lot less. It would still have been a bargain.

BEVS Jul 9th 2015 1:03 pm
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by knockoff nige (Post 11695400)
I think it's amazing that in a matter of months we'll be seeing the best ever photos of Pluto

Pluto comes into focus - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
I know. I think it is ace and I am a bit excited about this. Can't wait for the pics to start coming in.

Swerv-o Jul 9th 2015 1:47 pm
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by GarryP (Post 11695942)
We could have buried every two-bit politician, head first, in the martian soil for quite a lot less. It would still have been a bargain.

Wasted money aside, it is very exciting, and I'm really looking forward to seeing the images.

If anybody is interested, BBC Knowledge have a show called Stargazing with Dara O'Briain and Brian Cox. An hours worth of all manner of space exploration news, and in a fairly digestible format.


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Alfresco Jul 9th 2015 11:26 pm
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Should be cool to see. :thumbup:

GarryP Jul 10th 2015 11:18 am
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
New image. They seem to be coming in at a rate of one per day.

http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/fi...apl-swri_0.png

carolinephillips Jul 11th 2015 2:26 pm
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by GarryP (Post 11696768)
New image. They seem to be coming in at a rate of one per day.

http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/fi...apl-swri_0.png
Is the fact that it it appears to be constructed out of hexagons due to the processing, or has Pluto been made by alien bees?

GarryP Jul 11th 2015 2:48 pm
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by carolinephillips (Post 11697431)
Is the fact that it it appears to be constructed out of hexagons due to the processing, or has Pluto been made by alien bees?
At this point, probably processing related. Once the encounter is over they will send back stored data in slow time which will be able to improve things somewhat. However most of the close encounter stage will be on the other side of the planet, so this hemisphere might remain 'fuzzy'.

moneypenny20 Jul 11th 2015 3:12 pm
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by knockoff nige (Post 11695431)
Strangely, I didn't see this coming.
Strangely, that's what I was expecting when I first saw the title.

GarryP Jul 11th 2015 7:24 pm
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Thought this might be of interest, the plan of what images arrive when. Basically, to date, we've been getting long range images at 4+ million kms out. Today things switch over the encounter imaging, first of failsafe scientific data (not images), then a few images pre-encounter but only 1m km out (in case it gets smashed).

Then the actual encounter, where the probe will be snapping pics like a japanese tourist and not talking to anyone.

Then after phoning home on the 15th, it starts pushing out a few sub 1m km images of each object, followed by real close images of Pluto's & Charon's surfaces and some science data.

From Friday it will return a few sexy pics, close up, as a kind of sampler.

It will then go quiet for the following 2 months, before it starts downloading the rest of the images (first equivalent of JPGs, then the RAWs).

So the next week, till Tuesday next will be the main images seen during the actual encounter timeperiod. That's all unless they have changed their minds at all after losing contact for a few days.

AEST is 10 hours in advance of UT.

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Sunday, July 12 19:39 UT : 7.5hr downlink: Final optical navigation images
  • 3 LORRIs of Pluto at 13 km/pix (~185 pixels across disk)
  • 2 LORRIs of Charon at 13 km/pix (~92 pixels across disk)
Monday, July 13 02:23 UT : 4.2hr downlink: Fail Safe A
  • LEISA and Alice data (no LORRI or MVIC images)
Monday, July 13 06:14 UT : 2.5hr downlink: Fail Safe B
  • LEISA data (no LORRI or MVIC images)
Monday, July 13 at 10:39 UT : 1.4hr downlink: Fail Safe C
  • LEISA data (no LORRI or MVIC images)
Monday, July 13 at 16:24 UT : 3.5hr downlink: Fail Safe D
  • LORRI Charon at 7.2 km/pix (~170 pixels across disk). Taken 2015-07-13 06:36:57. Range 1.461 million km.
  • MVIC Pluto and Charon color at 28 km/pix (~86 and ~43 pixels across disk). Taken 2015-07-13 07:37:55. Range 1.406 & 1.418 million km. ­- Can be used to colorize LORRI Charon image in same downlink; less good for colorizing later Pluto image because of 12.5-hour time difference, during which Pluto will rotate about 30 degrees
  • This downlink also includes Alice, LEISA, PEPSSI, and SWAP data.
Tuesday, July 14 at 03:15 UT : 0.9hr downlink: E-Health 1
  • LORRI Pluto at 3.8 kilometers per pixel (~630 pixels across disk). Taken 2015-07-13 20:17:28. Range 768,000 km. - The best single-frame photo of Pluto that will be available during encounter period
Wednesday, July 15 at 01:09 UT : 0.3hr downlink: Phone home
  • No science data, just a brief burst of telemetry confirming that the spacecraft survived the flyby. The mission team on Earth should receive the signal at 01:02 UT / 21:02 ET / 18:02 PT.
Wednesday, July 15 at 10:59 UT : First Look A
  • LORRI Charon at 2.3 km/pix (~520 pixels across disk). Taken 2015-07-14 02:41:49. Range 466,000 km. - The best single-frame photo of Charon that will be available during encounter period
  • LORRI Pluto at 3.9 km/pix (~615 pixels across disk). Taken 2015-07-13 20:02:43. Range 778,000 km. - Will make a stereo view with the one downlinked in E-Health 1
  • LORRI Hydra at 3.2 km/pix (~10x18 pixels across disk). Taken 2015-07-13 23:16:11. Range 645,000 km.
Wednesday, July 15 at 19:25 UT : 6.9hr downlink: First Look B
  • LORRI Nix at 3.0 km/pix (~9x19 pixels across disk). Taken 2015-07-13 23:19:16. Range 590,000 km. - The best photo of Nix that will be available during encounter period; LORRI's best will be 10 times higher-resolution
  • 3 frames on Pluto from high-resolution LORRI mosaic at 0.4 km/pix (Pluto will fill all 3 frames, each frame ~410 km wide). Taken 2015-07-14 10:10:15. Range 77,000 km. - The highest-resolution images of Pluto that will be available during encounter period
  • Alice, LEISA, REX, and SWAP data
Thursday, July 16 at 04:23 UT : 1.9hr downlink: First Look C
  • PEPSSI data (no LORRI or MVIC images)
Thursday, July 16 at 07:23 UT : 1.9hr downlink: First Look D
  • 3 frames on Charon from high-resolution LORRI mosaic at 0.38 km/pix (Charon will fill frame, each frame ~390 km wide). Taken 2015-07-14 10:23:47. Range 79,000 km. - The highest-resolution images of Charon that will be available during encounter period
  • PEPSSI and SWAP data
Thursday, July 16 at 13:22 UT : 4.3hr downlink: First Look E
  • MVIC Pluto and Charon color at 5.0 km/pix (~480 and ~240 pixels across disks). Taken 2015-07-14 06:49:08. Range 254,000 and 269,000 km. - Color portrait of Pluto & Charon in same image
  • SWAP data
Friday, July 17 at 16:32 UT : 3.3hr downlink: High Priority A
  • LORRI Hydra at 1.2 km/pix (~48x28 pixels across disk). Taken 2015-07-14 07:39:28. Range 231,000 km. - The best-resolution well-lit photo of Hydra in the data set (there will be a higher-resolution one taken of a crescent Hydra)
  • 1 frame on Pluto from 2x2 LORRI mosaic at 2.2 km/pix. Taken 2015-07-14 02:49:47. Range 444,000 km. - Will show Pluto filling a corner of image
  • Alice data
Saturday, July 18 at 10:29 UT : 4.6hr downlink: High Priority B
  • LORRI Pluto at 1.8 km/pix (Pluto will fill frame). Taken 2015-07-14 19:06:24. Range 360,000 km. - A departure crescent shot of Pluto
  • MVIC Nix color at 3.1 km/pix (~18x8 pixels across disk). Taken 2015-07-14 08:02:39. Range 165,000 km. - The best color image of Nix that will be available during encounter period; may be used for stereo with image returned in First Look B
  • LEISA data
For the rest of Saturday and Sunday, downlinks include REX and LEISA data, with no LORRI or MVIC data.

Monday, July 20 at 16:20 UT : 3.3hr downlink: High Priority G
  • 4 frames on Pluto from high-resolution LORRI mosaic at 0.4 km/pix (Pluto will fill all 4 frames, each frame ~410 km wide). Taken 2015-07-14 10:10:15. Range 77,000 km. - Adds to high-resolution mosaic that began downlinking Wednesday in First Look B
Following that, no images will be returned until September 14, at which point we will gradually get the entire image data set. first lossy, then lossless, over the course of a year.

Buzzy--Bee Jul 12th 2015 10:17 am
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
So where is it boldly going after Pluto?

BB

Alfresco Jul 12th 2015 10:22 am
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by moneypenny20 (Post 11697448)
Strangely, that's what I was expecting when I first saw the title.
Yep. :nod:

knockoff nige Jul 12th 2015 10:30 am
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by Buzzy--Bee (Post 11697825)
So where is it boldly going after Pluto?

BB
Neptune and then space junk I think. It's not coming back. Can't think of a better way to get rid of incriminating evidence. It's probably loaded with the files Snowden didn't get.

GarryP Jul 12th 2015 11:16 am
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by Buzzy--Bee (Post 11697825)
So where is it boldly going after Pluto?

BB
Kuiper Belt objects, then out of the Solar System, eventually

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Ho...ion_objectives

Swerv-o Jul 12th 2015 11:20 am
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by GarryP (Post 11697851)
Kuiper Belt objects, then out of the Solar System, eventually

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Ho...ion_objectives

Following V'Ger


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GarryP Jul 12th 2015 2:44 pm
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Some new images are creeping out from the 5 that are due:

Pluto
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/S...png?1436755272

Charon

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/S...aron_Alone.png

GarryP Jul 13th 2015 3:38 pm
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Some new images have just become available, looks like they are going to try a little super resolution from 2.5m km out. Here's my mucking about with them

http://i.imgur.com/wvnTsZz.jpg

Interestingly there looks to be stretch fractures over the surface, akin to what was seen at Europa.

A much higher resolution image ought to come out tomorrow, around the time of the actual encounter, but take earlier at 1m km out.

knockoff nige Jul 13th 2015 4:15 pm
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
I think I see an Igloo.

moneypenny20 Jul 13th 2015 9:32 pm
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by GarryP (Post 11698793)
Some new images have just become available, looks like they are going to try a little super resolution from 2.5m km out. Here's my mucking about with them

http://i.imgur.com/wvnTsZz.jpg

Interestingly there looks to be stretch fractures over the surface, akin to what was seen at Europa.

A much higher resolution image ought to come out tomorrow, around the time of the actual encounter, but take earlier at 1m km out.
Sadly looks a bit like my backside.

GarryP Jul 13th 2015 9:47 pm
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by moneypenny20 (Post 11698936)
Sadly looks a bit like my backside.
Your backside is the size of Western Australia?

Two hours to closest approach.

Looks likely that NASA will release the large image of Pluto around the time of closest approach, even though there's no communication with the probe during the encounter.

PR people .... :sneaky:

moneypenny20 Jul 13th 2015 9:52 pm
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by GarryP (Post 11698948)
Your backside is the size of Western Australia?
:lol: Not quite. It was more the stretch fractures comment ;)

GarryP Jul 14th 2015 1:41 am
Re: Pictures of Pluto
 
Originally Posted by GarryP (Post 11698948)
Looks likely that NASA will release the large image of Pluto around the time of closest approach, even though there's no communication with the probe during the encounter.

PR people .... :sneaky:
And here it is, coloured via the lower res colour camera. The thing that's going to be getting them going is that that light bit is new surface, so young.


http://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/as...alth1_f840.png


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