New Horizons: Near Encounter Phase |
New Horizons: Near Encounter Phase |
Jul 31 2015, 11:36 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 423 Joined: 13-November 14 From: Norway Member No.: 7310 |
I don't think so; I haven't seen anything. I wouldn't be surprised if there aren't any more press conferences before September, when new images and other data start coming down in great amounts.
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Jul 31 2015, 11:55 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 701 Joined: 3-December 04 From: Boulder, Colorado, USA Member No.: 117 |
These strips are a bonus byproduct of the selective compressed downlinks that we did shortly after the flyby- something about the way the downlink was commanded gave us the first 64 rows of the next image after the one we requested. They provide an intriguing sneak peek of unknown territory in these cases.
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Jul 31 2015, 12:00 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2998 Joined: 30-October 04 Member No.: 105 |
A "sneak peak of unknown territory"-- I like that description. It makes us giddy just like kids before Christmas...
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Jul 31 2015, 01:52 PM
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Lord Of The Uranian Rings Group: Members Posts: 798 Joined: 18-July 05 From: Plymouth, UK Member No.: 437 |
John, thanks so much for providing a quick explanation!
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Jul 31 2015, 06:26 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4252 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
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Jul 31 2015, 06:40 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
FORUM NOTICE: Since NH has completed all of its Pluto system observations, this thread for the near encounter phase
EDIT: This thread will be closed in the near future. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Jul 31 2015, 06:46 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2998 Joined: 30-October 04 Member No.: 105 |
I am working on a "Poster Session" of the geomorphology of Pluto. This is, of course, a work-in-progress and new images are up at:
https://univ.smugmug.com/New-Horizons-Mission/PlutoCharon/ --Bill -------------------- |
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Aug 1 2015, 01:44 AM
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I unwrapped the haze from Pluto in the newly released LORRI full-disk images.
That's a full 360 degrees. It's hard to make anything out of it with the lower resolution compared to the earlier three, combined with the uneven lighting around the disk. Here's a more horizontally compressed version. Those both cover 0 to 15 pixels above the surface. Here's some numbers about things; accuracy is probably within a pixel. Treating lor_0299323899 as the base image. Pluto center (pixels; center of top-left pixel is 0.5, 0.5): 412.125, 483.75 Pluto radius (pixels): 122ish lor_0299323929's offset (pixels): 75, -23.75 |
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Aug 1 2015, 02:14 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 423 Joined: 13-November 14 From: Norway Member No.: 7310 |
For Sky & Telescope, Stern wrote that
QUOTE Regarding Pluto, we found [...] possibly even evidence for subsurface liquids. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-n...pluto-073120154 Is this about lower parts of the nitrogen glacier(s) at Sputnik plain, or something else we haven't been told about yet? -------------------- |
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Aug 1 2015, 07:29 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 816 Joined: 3-June 04 From: Brittany, France Member No.: 79 |
Here is a montage I made with zooms on the major landmarks in the region of Sputnik Planum, along with informal names used by New Horizons team.
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Aug 1 2015, 07:56 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1887 Joined: 20-November 04 From: Iowa Member No.: 110 |
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Aug 2 2015, 05:54 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
FORUM NOTE: As previously mentioned we've established new topics for the post-encounter phase of New Horizons as follows, and they're going live now. There will probably be chronological breaks in these as this process continues for the next year or more:
Pluto Surface Observations Pluto Atmospheric Observations Charon Surface Observations Pluto System Small Moons Reminder that there's also a Pluto System Cartography thread for discussions related to that subject. This thread will close in the near future as discussions migrate to these new topics. Thanks for your patience as we attempt to make the massive data return from NH as organized (and therefore searchable) as possible for everyone. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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