Pluto Surface Observations 1: NH Post-Encounter Phase

Pluto Surface Observations 1: NH Post-Encounter Phase, 1 Aug 2015- 10 Oct 2015

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nprev Pluto Surface Observations 1: NH Post-Encounter Phase Aug 1 2015, 05:53 PM

Gennady Ionov User torque_xtr (http://www.astronomy.ru/forum/ind... Aug 2 2015, 07:54 AM

Gennady Ionov Excuse me, is there somewhere information about ex... Aug 2 2015, 05:58 PM

scalbers There are images (yet to be downlinked) of Pluto l... Aug 2 2015, 06:19 PM

JRehling I expect Pluto's axis of rotation to be very s... Aug 3 2015, 06:44 PM

Gennady Ionov QUOTE (scalbers @ Aug 2 2015, 11:19 PM) T... Aug 4 2015, 05:27 PM

Gerald QUOTE (Gennady Ionov @ Aug 4 2015, 07:27 ... Aug 4 2015, 07:26 PM

Gennady Ionov Color pictures give density of irradiated solar en... Aug 3 2015, 08:24 AM

Habukaz In Pluto's north, there are these dark smudges... Aug 3 2015, 10:14 AM

Bill Harris QUOTE Interesting to note minimum insolation at th... Aug 3 2015, 02:11 PM

scalbers QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Aug 3 2015, 02:11 PM... Aug 3 2015, 04:34 PM

Gennady Ionov Another interesting feature of relief: small dimpl... Aug 3 2015, 02:30 PM

Bill Harris QUOTE an additional assumption of a circular orbit... Aug 3 2015, 07:48 PM

ngunn I don't think the surface is decoupled from th... Aug 4 2015, 12:13 AM

Bill Harris There is no evidence either way, but I don't t... Aug 4 2015, 01:00 AM

lollipop "Pluto’s insolation history: Latitudinal vari... Aug 4 2015, 10:02 AM

Bill Harris Yes! I'm planning to read that once I ge... Aug 4 2015, 01:36 PM

alan I read somewhere that the Charonshine images of Pl... Aug 4 2015, 05:49 PM

JRehling Checking the orbital positions, there were Charons... Aug 4 2015, 06:04 PM

Gennady Ionov Alan, Gerald, thank you very much for this encoura... Aug 4 2015, 08:04 PM

alan I believe these are the MVIC and LORRI Charonshine... Aug 6 2015, 09:06 PM

JRehling According to Solar System Simulator, Charon was at... Aug 6 2015, 10:11 PM

Bjorn Jonsson QUOTE (alan @ Aug 6 2015, 09:06 PM) I bel... Aug 7 2015, 11:41 PM

alan So roughly half of Pluto in Charonshine then. Aug 7 2015, 06:47 PM

JRehling QUOTE (alan @ Aug 7 2015, 11:47 AM) So ro... Aug 7 2015, 07:55 PM

scalbers A key part of this point is that half of the night... Aug 7 2015, 08:17 PM

Phil Stooke Another point to consider: since the illumination ... Aug 7 2015, 08:42 PM

Bill Harris QUOTE half of the night side of Pluto will be illu... Aug 7 2015, 08:56 PM

ngunn All the posters here clearly understand the geomet... Aug 7 2015, 09:44 PM

Explorer1 One could take a map like the ones we already have... Aug 7 2015, 10:04 PM

scalbers Yes the approximate region on the Pluto maps would... Aug 7 2015, 10:22 PM

Gennady Ionov With the use of map http://www.unmannedspaceflight... Aug 8 2015, 09:29 AM

Bjorn Jonsson I have been experimenting with generating DEMs of ... Aug 8 2015, 12:17 PM

HSchirmer QUOTE (Bjorn Jonsson @ Aug 8 2015, 12:17 ... Aug 8 2015, 07:04 PM

Phil Stooke The dark swirls may be due to grain size changes, ... Aug 8 2015, 07:19 PM

nprev Agreed, Phil. These wide-view images don't pro... Aug 8 2015, 08:11 PM

Bjorn Jonsson Speaking of ices, glaciers, flow patterns etc., a ... Aug 8 2015, 09:20 PM

ngunn I'm not yet convinced there is flowing ice her... Aug 8 2015, 09:25 PM

Bjorn Jonsson I'm not either - as I mentioned above, the res... Aug 8 2015, 09:32 PM

HSchirmer QUOTE (Bjorn Jonsson @ Aug 8 2015, 10:32 ... Aug 9 2015, 04:32 PM

Nafnlaus QUOTE If liquid phases of N2 are stable a few mete... Aug 10 2015, 11:38 AM

HSchirmer QUOTE (Nafnlaus @ Aug 10 2015, 12:38 PM) ... Aug 10 2015, 02:38 PM

Sherbert QUOTE (HSchirmer @ Aug 10 2015, 03:38 PM)... Aug 13 2015, 03:30 PM

HSchirmer QUOTE (Sherbert @ Aug 13 2015, 03:30 PM) ... Aug 14 2015, 04:41 PM

Sherbert The video below shows liquid Nitrogen freezes init... Aug 15 2015, 02:08 PM

Tom Dahl Fascinating video, thank you for sharing it. Aug 16 2015, 12:00 PM

Sherbert Since the older surface and the "glaciers... Aug 10 2015, 01:38 PM

Gennady Ionov With the use of metadata of LORRI frames I clarify... Aug 10 2015, 07:00 PM

Bjorn Jonsson QUOTE (Gennady Ionov @ Aug 10 2015, 07:00... Aug 10 2015, 07:25 PM

Gennady Ionov QUOTE (Bjorn Jonsson @ Aug 11 2015, 12:25... Aug 10 2015, 08:06 PM

MichaelJWP Hi all, I rarely post, but had a question on this ... Aug 12 2015, 11:40 AM

Gennady Ionov Michael, I, too, for a long time the question aros... Aug 12 2015, 12:38 PM

nprev Imaging this was suggested several years ago, but ... Aug 12 2015, 04:26 PM

scalbers QUOTE (nprev @ Aug 12 2015, 04:26 PM) Ima... Aug 12 2015, 05:11 PM

Gennady Ionov What kind of scientific data loss can be a questio... Aug 12 2015, 04:47 PM

MichaelJWP QUOTE (Gennady Ionov @ Aug 12 2015, 05:47... Aug 12 2015, 05:00 PM

Bjorn Jonsson QUOTE (MichaelJWP @ Aug 12 2015, 05:00 PM... Aug 12 2015, 05:40 PM

Gennady Ionov QUOTE (Bjorn Jonsson @ Aug 12 2015, 10:40... Aug 12 2015, 05:57 PM

djellison QUOTE (Gennady Ionov @ Aug 12 2015, 09:47... Aug 12 2015, 05:56 PM

elakdawalla AFAIK shooting these images was briefly considered... Aug 12 2015, 08:11 PM

Gennady Ionov QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Aug 13 2015, 01:11 A... Aug 13 2015, 03:07 AM

nprev Lacking any direct knowledge, I cannot say for cer... Aug 13 2015, 03:53 AM

Explorer1 We could always simulate the view at any rate, rig... Aug 13 2015, 04:41 AM

MichaelJWP QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Aug 13 2015, 05:41 AM)... Aug 13 2015, 08:58 AM

Gsnorgathon QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Aug 12 2015, 09:41 PM)... Aug 13 2015, 07:51 PM

Habukaz Not sure if this has been brought up already, but ... Aug 16 2015, 01:25 PM

HSchirmer QUOTE (Habukaz @ Aug 16 2015, 02:25 PM) .... Aug 21 2015, 07:18 PM

Bill Harris It seems that the "Southern Outcrops" o... Aug 16 2015, 03:44 PM

HSchirmer QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Aug 16 2015, 03:44 P... Aug 16 2015, 04:32 PM

HSchirmer Here's the link to the article on Pluto and se... Aug 16 2015, 04:41 PM

ngunn QUOTE (HSchirmer @ Aug 16 2015, 05:41 PM)... Aug 17 2015, 09:03 PM

alan From the activity timeline: QUOTE New Horizons is ... Aug 16 2015, 09:31 PM

Bill Harris I don't know. REX is a passive device assoc w... Aug 17 2015, 07:19 PM

stevesliva IIRC, REX can be active, so the receiver may be on... Aug 17 2015, 07:37 PM

Gennady Ionov It calculates a series of animations about the New... Aug 20 2015, 05:24 AM

Bjorn Jonsson QUOTE (Gennady Ionov @ Aug 20 2015, 05:24... Aug 20 2015, 10:42 PM

Gennady Ionov QUOTE (Bjorn Jonsson @ Aug 21 2015, 03:42... Aug 21 2015, 06:38 AM

Ian R Gennady, those movies are AMAZING! Utterly bre... Aug 20 2015, 09:26 AM

Gennady Ionov QUOTE (Ian R @ Aug 20 2015, 02:26 PM) Gen... Aug 20 2015, 11:36 AM

Habukaz I was intrigued by what appears to be 'cells... Aug 20 2015, 03:23 PM

Gennady Ionov QUOTE (Habukaz @ Aug 20 2015, 08:23 PM) I... Aug 20 2015, 03:57 PM

Habukaz QUOTE (Gennady Ionov @ Aug 20 2015, 05:57... Aug 21 2015, 08:22 AM

Gennady Ionov QUOTE (Habukaz @ Aug 21 2015, 01:22 PM) T... Aug 21 2015, 12:50 PM

Habukaz The idea was not that the dark particles were crea... Aug 21 2015, 01:56 PM

JRehling My sense is that the production of this terrain wa... Aug 21 2015, 04:52 PM

TheAnt QUOTE (JRehling @ Aug 21 2015, 06:52 PM) ... Aug 21 2015, 05:05 PM

Habukaz QUOTE (JRehling @ Aug 21 2015, 06:52 PM) ... Aug 22 2015, 05:35 PM

JRehling QUOTE (Habukaz @ Aug 22 2015, 10:35 AM) I... Aug 23 2015, 01:17 PM

Habukaz QUOTE (JRehling @ Aug 23 2015, 03:17 PM) ... Aug 23 2015, 02:27 PM

JRehling QUOTE (Habukaz @ Aug 23 2015, 07:27 AM) I... Aug 24 2015, 12:04 PM

HSchirmer QUOTE (JRehling @ Aug 24 2015, 01:04 PM) ... Aug 24 2015, 01:32 PM

Gennady Ionov So if the Pluto mountains consist of water ice, we... Aug 21 2015, 04:25 PM

Gladstoner The bubble-like 'cells' in north Sputnik: ... Aug 24 2015, 07:43 AM

Nafnlaus It's common for glaciers to have some sort of ... Aug 24 2015, 10:28 AM

Nafnlaus Another case where it's so unfortunate that NH... Aug 25 2015, 03:26 PM

HSchirmer QUOTE (Nafnlaus @ Aug 25 2015, 03:26 PM) ... Aug 25 2015, 05:42 PM

siravan QUOTE (Nafnlaus @ Aug 25 2015, 10:26 AM) ... Aug 25 2015, 06:50 PM

HSchirmer QUOTE (siravan @ Aug 25 2015, 06:50 PM) N... Aug 25 2015, 08:19 PM

Habukaz Next image from NH might arrive Saturday next week... Aug 25 2015, 05:50 PM

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