Pluto Surface Observations 2: NH Post-Encounter Phase, 10 Oct 2015- 1 Feb 2016 Options

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This thread is for discussion of NH Pluto surface observations received after 10 Oct 2015.

[Daniele_bianchin...]

This thread is for discussion of NH Pluto surface observations received after 10 Oct 2015.

Good morning,
What's the most realistic color image of Pluto as appears to the human eye?..Many ThanKS
edit: I have a Questions..
the diagram score (P.H.Index) of Pluto is 22% complete..
as it would be the diagram score of Pluto today after New Horizon images?

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[Guest_MichaelPoole_*]

Good morning,
What's the most realistic color image of Pluto as appears to the human eye?..Many ThanKS
edit: I have a Questions..
the diagram score (P.H.Index) of Pluto is 22% complete..
as it would be the diagram score of Pluto today after New Horizon images?

This post that I wrote in the previous thread might give you an answer:

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&p=227266

There is a true color image with data from RALPH and the higher resolution mosaics colorized using lower resolution true-color data by a kind amateur:

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&p=227266

It is beautful, the 8K mosaic is now my desktop background. Official RALPH + MVIC hi-res mosaic will come later.

[Gladstoner]

Pluto LORRI close-ups:

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounter/index.php

[Herobrine]

Here's the full list of LORRI images published in SOC today.
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_4.jpg identified as 'C_MVIC_LORRI_CA_L1', described as '3s LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:21:29 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_6.jpg identified as 'C_MVIC_LORRI_CA_L1', described as '3s LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:21:43 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'C_MVIC_LORRI_CA_L1', described as '3s LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:20:38 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'C_MVIC_LORRI_CA_L1', described as '3s LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:20:52 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'C_MVIC_LORRI_CA_L1', described as '3s LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:21:09 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'C_MVIC_LORRI_CA_L1', described as '3s LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:21:18 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'C_MVIC_LORRI_CA_L1', described as '3s LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:21:23 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'C_MVIC_LORRI_CA_L1', described as '3s LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:21:38 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_4.jpg identified as 'C_MVIC_LORRI_CA_L1', described as '3s LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:21:49 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'C_LORRI_L1', described as 'Tight-deadband 2-sigma LORRI mosaic of Charon', published at 2015-10-16T17:11:28 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:23:08 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:23:15 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:23:21 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:23:26 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:23:33 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:24:03 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:24:09 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:24:16 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:24:29 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:24:37 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:24:45 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:27:17 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:28:08 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:28:15 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:28:24 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:28:30 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:28:35 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:28:40 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:28:45 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:28:51 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:28:56 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:29:01 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:30:29 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:30:35 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:30:45 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:30:50 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:30:56 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:31:17 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:31:29 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:24:51 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_3.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T17:25:04 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_1.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T18:08:39 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_1.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T18:08:55 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_1.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T18:08:48 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_1.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T18:09:01 UTC
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounte...0x630_sci_1.jpg identified as 'P_MPAN_1', described as 'LORRI Ride-Along', published at 2015-10-16T18:09:07 UTC

Edit: Added more to the list 5 minutes later. Guess they weren't done yet.
Edit 2: Added 5 more that were published a half hour later.

[Gladstoner]

I would not have expected this pattern within the dark streaks:




We shouldn't expect anything with Pluto.

[alan]

LORRI site is slow, it must be getting mobbed.

ETA: Sublimation pits and crevasses?

[Herobrine]

Here's a hand-stitching of P_MPAN_1

Click the preview image below for the full-size version (8817x1156, File size is 5.5 MiB):

[volcanopele]

Here's the version I made. This also includes the images from P_MPAN that were downlinked earlier this month.

http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~perry/images/P_MPAN.jpg

[Bjorn Jonsson]

I would not have expected this pattern within the dark streaks:
We shouldn't expect anything with Pluto.

Before today's LORRI release I was starting to think that Pluto couldn't get much more weird-looking than it already was - it already looked strange enough. I love to admit that I was wrong.

[Gladstoner]

I assume the blank/noisy LORRI image releases from 11:22:02 to 11:22:36 are part of the high-res strip. Are they a portion taken beyond Pluto's limb, or is something else going on?

[Nafnlaus]

LORRI site is slow, it must be getting mobbed.

ETA: Sublimation pits and crevasses?

Wow. Amazing pattern. My first take was mounds, but checking the lighting elsewhere in the picture, you're right, those are pits. But that pattern.. just wow.

How big are those pits?

More confirmation that the level of pitting in the "convection cells" appears to be higher near the edges than in the middle, backing up the convection concept (as the edges would be the oldest).

Just wow.

[Gladstoner]

I can understand regularly spaced pits and rows of pits, but how in the world can there be pits occurring in pairs?

[Pluto7904]

I assume the blank/noisy LORRI image releases from 11:22:02 to 11:22:36 are part of the high-res strip. Are they a portion taken beyond Pluto's limb, or is something else going on?

I was wondering that too. I thought maybe they were the images they were going to take on the dark side 'by Charon-light'. However it looks like there are stars. Maybe images taken to search for more moons?

[Bjorn Jonsson]

These images may have been taken to ensure that Pluto's limb is covered in case of inaccurate pointing and/or slightly different flyby geometry from what was planned.