We're starting to get some cool images from our spacecraft (New Horizons) that is approaching Pluto after a 9-year flight. The close approach to the planet will be in mid-July, but we're already starting to resolve some surface features that look like ice caps. That's Pluto stationary in the center and its largest moon Charon going around it.
More details here:
http://www.nasa.gov/pluto042915
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Pffft...it's only a Dwarf Planet now anyway...
Seriously, though, very cool images, with more to come. Unless the Plutonian Space Defense Force shoots down the probe...
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And as we approach Pluto, another mission that we have been heavily involved in is ending today when the MESSENGER spacecraft executes its final orbit around Mercury and crashes into the surface at about 1:26pm our time. It was launched in 2004 and went into orbit around Mercury in 2011. It sent back a lot of cool data, giving us the first complete view of the surface.
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This is awesome, thanks for sharing Dirk!
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Man that is some cool stuff right there
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So when we moving to mars?
Here you go..
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Very nice. Thanks for the update and the pictures.
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Dirk, you know anything about the EM drive?
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No, I don't work with any of the propulsion stuff.Originally Posted by Spooph
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Dirk,
You might have the coolest job of any person I know.
My boys are totally geeked out on space, and want to be astronauts. I love showing them the stuff you post.
Please keep up the good work, and know that I'm writing to my representatives to encourage them to increase funding for space exploration.
Scott
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Thank you for doing that. These are very tough times for the field. I have seen so many talented people spend a decade or more in school preparing to become research scientists, only to leave the field because there simply aren't the resources to support them. By my estimation from serving on review panels and NASA and the National Science Foundation, we fund less than half of the proposed research that is deemed worthwhile by the field. Young people who dream of working in this field should be encourage, but in a realistic manner. Figures like below do not leave me encouraged about the future.
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We have the resources to pay for people to riot/refuse to work but not for something as important as space exploration? Oh what a f'd up world we live in....... sure hope the funding continues and +1 with Rybo, you do have a damn cool job.
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We're a week out from close approach and things are looking very interesting. Pluto on the right and its largest moon Charon on the left:
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I vote for a name change to the Event Horizon.
I've got more flavor than a packet of macaroni.
That's awesome
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That's no moon, it's a spa.. no, it's a moon.
Pluto (on the right) looks to be the same size as its moon & Charon doesn't even look like it's on the same plane as Pluto yet (of course this is hard to tell from the photo but that's what it looks like)!
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Just want to re-inforce this, I love space and my daughter is getting interested. I can't wait to see where it takes her.
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Close approach is tomorrow morning. This is a shot from July 11. The bit rate from that far out is pretty slow so it will take a year or so to get all of the data back.
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Closest approach to Pluto was about two hours ago. The spacecraft is furiously taking data right now, and will phone home in about 11 hours. Hopefully we'll have some really nice images of the surface shortly thereafter.
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Here is the color picture taken before the spacecraft went into its encounter sequence:
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Too cool man
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What is the radio lag at this point?
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