New Horizons’ Pluto Flyby July 15, 2015 6:30am by Barry Ritholtz From NYT: The last image of Pluto sent back to Earth before New Horizons’ flyby. The photo was taken on Monday, July 13, from a distance of 476,000 miles. Source: NYT Spread the wealth. twitter facebook linkedin What's been said: Discussions found on the web: reedsch commented on Jul 15 Absolutely fabulous! Who’d have ever imagined we’d see such a thing. Surely we live in a magical age. DeDude commented on Jul 15 Looks to me like someone has been trowing dirt balls at Pluto and Charon http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33543383 I think Horizon is going to have to have a talk with the Kuiper Belt about that. formerlawyer commented on Jul 16 The black spot on Charon, Pluto’s moon has been nicknamed Mordor! https://www.facebook.com/NASA Xkcd on Pluto http://xkcd.com/1551/ Posted Under Science Previous Post The Long and Winding Recovery Next Post 10 Wednesday AM Reads
reedsch commented on Jul 15 Absolutely fabulous! Who’d have ever imagined we’d see such a thing. Surely we live in a magical age.
DeDude commented on Jul 15 Looks to me like someone has been trowing dirt balls at Pluto and Charon http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33543383 I think Horizon is going to have to have a talk with the Kuiper Belt about that.
formerlawyer commented on Jul 16 The black spot on Charon, Pluto’s moon has been nicknamed Mordor! https://www.facebook.com/NASA Xkcd on Pluto http://xkcd.com/1551/
Absolutely fabulous! Who’d have ever imagined we’d see such a thing. Surely we live in a magical age.
Looks to me like someone has been trowing dirt balls at Pluto and Charon
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33543383
I think Horizon is going to have to have a talk with the Kuiper Belt about that.
The black spot on Charon, Pluto’s moon has been nicknamed Mordor!
https://www.facebook.com/NASA
Xkcd on Pluto
http://xkcd.com/1551/