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LIVE: New Horizons Pluto FlyBy - July 14, 2015
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Press conference started.
2 millions mile past PLuto.
Looking at back of planet.
Downlinking data.
Images!
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Starting off with the "little news".
Nix.
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Nix satellite portrayed, 2-times better than earth-based resolution.
25 miles across.
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Ralph instrument. Carbon Monoxide overlay.
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CO2 detected and mapped in the centre of the "heart".
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Icy plains of Pluto
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couple like the model
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Flyover.
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Atmosphere...
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Re: LIVE: New Horizons Pluto FlyBy - July 14, 2015
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Quote from: Chris Bergin on 07/17/2015 05:13 pm
Icy plains of Pluto
Whoa! It almost looks as though there is debris around the holes along the ice ridges. If so, it could be an indicator of cryovolcanism!
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graphic
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Plasma data:
Nitrogen atmosphere is escaping. Solar wind from the Sun at supersonic speeds crash into the escaping atmosphere and produce a shock upstream. Becomes ionized.
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Pluto has an escaping atmosphere at the rate of 500 tons per hour.
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Science talk....Pluto's active, I think was the comment.
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Hills could have been pushed up, or "resistant to erosion" knobs.
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