New Horizons Pluto Flyby

herbertk said:
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3.04 x 10-22 kW

Yeah its gonna take a while....
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Check that power received, that is insanely small. 0.0000000000000000000304 W. How sensitive must their receiving equipment be to pick that up? And deal with lost data etc?
 
furpile said:
Check that power received, that is insanely small. 0.0000000000000000000304 W. How sensitive must their receiving equipment be to pick that up? And deal with lost data etc?
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Its insane thats why only 2 dishes are bug enough to receive the signal!

2 in the DSA that is not sure of others
 
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Pluto through the years

This animation combines various observations of Pluto over the course of several decades. The first frame is a digital zoom-in on Pluto as it appeared upon its discovery by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 (image courtesy Lowell Observatory Archives). The other images show various views of Pluto as seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope beginning in the 1990s and NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2015. The final sequence zooms in to a close-up frame of Pluto released on July 15, 2015.
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Latest picture shows me 3 things:
http://www.space.com/29961-pluto-ice-mountains-nasa-photos.html
Possible geological activity (No impact craters as discussed in the latter part of the video)
Geological activity would lead to heat through friction.
Considering that they say it has to be water-ice forming mountains , friction heat from geological activity could melt the ice and be a source of life (I'm not saying intelligent :P ) like we find at the bottom of our own ocean at volcanic vents.

This has big implications since we are talking about (Dwarf) plantes that are supposed to be geologically frozen solid because of their small size.
This is a game changer in my opinion , the possible scope for where to find the possibility of life ( I'm not saying intelligent :P ) has just drastically increased exponentially .
 
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This is k@k funny..

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BTW I grabbed a doccy called 'Direct From Pluto: First Encounter' from the newz, haven't watched it yet so can't comment but may be interesting.
 
evilstebunny said:
This is k@k funny..

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BTW I grabbed a doccy called 'Direct From Pluto: First Encounter' from the newz, haven't watched it yet so can't comment but may be interesting.
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Where did you grab it from ?
PM me link if you dont mind ?
I have seen a couple of videos now about the new horizon mission but maybe I missed this one. :p
 
Live broadcast for today , LIVE NOW

New Horizons team members will unveil and discuss some of the images the spacecraft captured during its historic Pluto flyby at a press conference that starts at 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT) Friday (July 17). Watch it live in the window below, courtesy of NASA TV.

Less than 1 GB downloaded out of around 50 GB
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Live broadcast for today , LIVE NOW

New Horizons team members will unveil and discuss some of the images the spacecraft captured during its historic Pluto flyby at a press conference that starts at 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT) Friday (July 17). Watch it live in the window below, courtesy of NASA TV.

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Cant confirm if Carbon gasses are from above or below ... (as per Q&A)
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Pluto is geologically active
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See my earlier post :)

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...luto-Flyby?p=15660620&viewfull=1#post15660620
 
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This annotated view of a portion of Pluto’s Sputnik Planum (Sputnik Plain), named for Earth’s first artificial satellite, shows an array of enigmatic features. The surface appears to be divided into irregularly shaped segments that are ringed by narrow troughs, some of which contain darker materials. Features that appear to be groups of mounds and fields of small pits are also visible. This image was acquired by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on July 14 from a distance of 48,000 miles (77,000 kilometers). Features as small as a half-mile (1 kilometer) across are visible. The blocky appearance of some features is due to compression of the image.
Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI
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In the latest data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, a new close-up image of Pluto reveals a vast, craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100 million years old, and is possibly still being shaped by geologic processes. This frozen region is north of Pluto’s icy mountains, in the center-left of the heart feature, informally named “Tombaugh Regio” (Tombaugh Region) after Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto in 1930.

“This terrain is not easy to explain,” said Jeff Moore, leader of the New Horizons Geology, Geophysics and Imaging Team (GGI) at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. “The discovery of vast, craterless, very young plains on Pluto exceeds all pre-flyby expectations.”

This fascinating icy plains region -- resembling frozen mud cracks on Earth -- has been informally named “Sputnik Planum” (Sputnik Plain) after the Earth’s first artificial satellite. It has a broken surface of irregularly-shaped segments, roughly 12 miles (20 kilometers) across, bordered by what appear to be shallow troughs. Some of these troughs have darker material within them, while others are traced by clumps of hills that appear to rise above the surrounding terrain. Elsewhere, the surface appears to be etched by fields of small pits that may have formed by a process called sublimation, in which ice turns directly from solid to gas, just as dry ice does on Earth.

Scientists have two working theories as to how these segments were formed. The irregular shapes may be the result of the contraction of surface materials, similar to what happens when mud dries. Alternatively, they may be a product of convection, similar to wax rising in a lava lamp. On Pluto, convection would occur within a surface layer of frozen carbon monoxide, methane and nitrogen, driven by the scant warmth of Pluto’s interior.

Pluto’s icy plains also display dark streaks that are a few miles long. These streaks appear to be aligned in the same direction and may have been produced by winds blowing across the frozen surface.

The Tuesday “heart of the heart” image was taken when New Horizons was 48,000 miles (77,000 kilometers) from Pluto, and shows features as small as one-half mile (1 kilometer) across. Mission scientists will learn more about these mysterious terrains from higher-resolution and stereo images that New Horizons will pull from its digital recorders and send back to Earth during the next year.
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Latest release from New Horizons

A newly discovered mountain range lies near the southwestern margin of Pluto’s Tombaugh Regio (Tombaugh Region), situated between bright, icy plains and dark, heavily-cratered terrain. This image was acquired by New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on July 14, 2015 from a distance of 48,000 miles (77,000 kilometers) and received on Earth on July 20. Features as small as a half-mile (1 kilometer) across are visible.
Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI
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