PLUTO, BITCHES

[YEK]

i didn't know it was so small

[triachus]

i didn't know it was so small

and racist

 

 

[Nebraska]

 

hi guys. meet pluto.

[lala]

its got a sad eye and a coelacanth in it bottom left

[Guest Atom Dowry Firth]

Nitrogen glaciers for most IDM 2016 imo

[caze]

its got a sad eye and a coelacanth in it bottom left

 

ha, my first thought as well.

[lala]

Nitrogen glaciers for most IDM 2016 imo

 

with giant fuckin coelacanth in it

[caze]

cya

 

Edited July 24, 2015 by caze

[Guest Atom Dowry Firth]

 

Nitrogen glaciers for most IDM 2016 imo

 

with giant fuckin coelacanth in it

 

 

It's an extra terrestrial hydrocarbon helter skelter

[Squee]

Someone explain the nitrogen glacier to me. I read some tweets about it yesterday but I have no idea what it actually means

[azatoth]

It's so cold that nitrogen can form somekind of glacier like structures.

[digit]

what's cool is that we're still going to be receiving new Pluto pics & data from the probe for another year. supposedly they're mostly receiving diagnostic stuff now & the bulk of the images won't start coming in until September.

Edited July 26, 2015 by digit

[t yst r]

Must've been a busy few hours for the thing during the flyby. Either that or it must have a shitty dial up connection out there to take so long :D

[may be rude]

it turns out the wireless out there sucks

[kaini]

not sure if you're being serious, but yeah, the bandwidth is very low (and the latency is obviously pretty high) - the way the mission was designed, it's taken a lot of photos and essentially sent back thumbnails. the scientists decide what looks interesting and these pics get sent back first in full resolution.

 

add to this the fact there's a number of cameras (low-res true colour, high-res B/W) and we probably won't get to see the really interesting stuff like the mass effect relay until september or so.

[goDel]

The next mission-pod will need to carry an iphone on a selfie-stick and a direct feed into instagram to keep me interested.

 

*unfriends new horizons *

[Nebraska]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AbiygSo478

[Nebraska]

new images from pluto

 

[may be rude]

nice!

 

hi-res (nasa page)

[Nebraska]

 

https://newhorizonsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/pluto-a-synth-odyssey

Edited September 17, 2015 by Nebraska

[may be rude]

holy fuck, this is one of the best space pictures i've seen

 

 

 

[digit]

holy fuck, this is one of the best space pictures i've seen

 

 

 

 

 

no joke. that is a breathtaking photo.

Edited September 18, 2015 by digit

[Salvatorin]

whoa

[Nebraska]

The newest high-resolution images of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons are both dazzling and mystifying, revealing a multitude of previously unseen topographic and compositional details. The image below -- showing an area near the line that separates day from night -- captures a vast rippling landscape of strange, aligned linear ridges

 

 

 

[azatoth]

amazing