New Horizons Pluto Flyby

Happy data hunting New Horizons!
Pluto , play nice . You wont have another visitor from earth for a very long time i suspect.
Pluto is a go.jpg
 
Apparently they will have an HD image round about Friday.
 
Cray said:
Apparently they will have an HD image round about Friday.
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Very few people actually realize how significant this event is .
We wont be visiting Pluto for a long time I suspect so what New Horizons captures today is gonna be the first and last info and views we will get to experience of Pluto, Charon , Nix , Hydra , Styx, ,Kerberos etc probably in our Lifetime.
 
Zyraz said:
Very few people actually realize how significant this event is .
We wont be visiting Pluto for a long time I suspect so what New Horizons captures today is gonna be the first and last info and views we will get to experience of Pluto, Charon , Nix , Hydra , Styx, ,Kerberos etc probably in our Lifetime.
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Epic :D
 
Damn I missed the actual moment of flyby due to work, still wanted to do a

Are we there yet ..
Are we there yet ..
Are we there yet ..
Are we there yet ..
Are we there yet .. :D

Pluto is too pretty to not be a planet.
 
This is so amazing. Makes me want to go home and play some Elite Dangerous
 
I wonder what type of technology goes into making a wireless network that can send/receive communication from that far away.
 
CamiKaze said:
I wonder what type of technology goes into making a wireless network that can send/receive communication from that far away.
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The principal challenge of deep space communications systems is the enormous distances over which our spacecraft travel. The two Voyager spacecraft, for example, are each more than 15 billion kilometers away, about 100 astronomical units (AU), the distance between the Earth and the Sun. Another important challenge for deep space communications systems is to maintain their extreme reliability and versatility, in order to accommodate the long system lifetimes of most planetary missions, which often last more than a decade. Though the twin spacecraft launched in 1977, Voyager is still communicating with Earth. These challenges must be met with a communications system that uses no more than a few kilograms of mass, and often uses only about enough power to illuminate a refrigerator light bulb.
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See below links for more info

https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html
http://scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov/research/ResearchTopics/topicdetails/?ID=67
 
Zyraz said:
Very few people actually realize how significant this event is .
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I don't think it really sinks in that this is first decent image they have ever seen of Pluto, 7 500 000 000 kilometres away. If you really give it some thought it is truly quite an immense event. These are the only images of Pluto that mankind possesses and which will be our only reference for a very very long time.
 
garp said:
I don't think it really sinks in that this is first decent image they have ever seen of Pluto, 7 500 000 000 kilometres away. If you really give it some thought it is truly quite an immense event. These are the only images of Pluto that mankind possesses and which will be our only reference for a very very long time.
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Yeah that is exactly what Im saying .
I was the only one in an open plan office , excited about the whole event .
Even doing counting down softly.
People ask what am I so excited about and i tell them.
Their response :" Oh " and carries on working on their so important excel sheet that will probably only have relevance until end of the month.
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^ I feel your pain. I went outside, stared at the sky (no idea in which direction Pluto was) and listened to God is an Astronaut (most excellent band if you feel like pondering about the stars). The rest of the workforce hammered away at their keyboards. Was nice to dream for a bit.
 
eg2505 said:
really cool;

but forgive my ignorance; didnt voyager 1/2 pass by pluto already?

didnt that probe send photos back?
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Voyager 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1 = Jupiter and Saturn

Voyager 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_2 = Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune

Also, Voyager 1 could have been commanded onto a different trajectory, whereby the gravitational slingshot effect of Saturn's mass would have steered and boosted it out to a flyby of Pluto. However, this Plutonian option was not exercised, because the close flyby of Titan was determined to have more scientific value and less risk.
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