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Re: LIVE: New Horizons Pluto FlyBy - July 14, 2015
« Reply #340 on: 07/17/2015 05:10 pm »
Press conference started.
2 millions mile past PLuto.
Looking at back of planet.
Downlinking data.
Images!

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Re: LIVE: New Horizons Pluto FlyBy - July 14, 2015
« Reply #341 on: 07/17/2015 05:10 pm »
Starting off with the "little news".

Nix.
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Re: LIVE: New Horizons Pluto FlyBy - July 14, 2015
« Reply #342 on: 07/17/2015 05:11 pm »
Nix satellite portrayed, 2-times better than earth-based resolution.
25 miles across.

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Re: LIVE: New Horizons Pluto FlyBy - July 14, 2015
« Reply #343 on: 07/17/2015 05:11 pm »
Ralph instrument. Carbon Monoxide overlay.
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Re: LIVE: New Horizons Pluto FlyBy - July 14, 2015
« Reply #344 on: 07/17/2015 05:11 pm »
CO2 detected and mapped in the centre of the "heart".

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Re: LIVE: New Horizons Pluto FlyBy - July 14, 2015
« Reply #345 on: 07/17/2015 05:13 pm »
Icy plains of Pluto
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Re: LIVE: New Horizons Pluto FlyBy - July 14, 2015
« Reply #346 on: 07/17/2015 05:13 pm »
couple like the model ;)
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Re: LIVE: New Horizons Pluto FlyBy - July 14, 2015
« Reply #347 on: 07/17/2015 05:14 pm »
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Re: LIVE: New Horizons Pluto FlyBy - July 14, 2015
« Reply #348 on: 07/17/2015 05:14 pm »
Flyover.
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Re: LIVE: New Horizons Pluto FlyBy - July 14, 2015
« Reply #349 on: 07/17/2015 05:15 pm »
Atmosphere...
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Re: LIVE: New Horizons Pluto FlyBy - July 14, 2015
« Reply #350 on: 07/17/2015 05:16 pm »
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Re: LIVE: New Horizons Pluto FlyBy - July 14, 2015
« Reply #351 on: 07/17/2015 05:18 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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Re: LIVE: New Horizons Pluto FlyBy - July 14, 2015
« Reply #352 on: 07/17/2015 05:18 pm »
graphic
« Last Edit: 07/17/2015 05:25 pm by Prober »
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Re: LIVE: New Horizons Pluto FlyBy - July 14, 2015
« Reply #353 on: 07/17/2015 05:19 pm »
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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Re: LIVE: New Horizons Pluto FlyBy - July 14, 2015
« Reply #354 on: 07/17/2015 05:19 pm »
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Re: LIVE: New Horizons Pluto FlyBy - July 14, 2015
« Reply #355 on: 07/17/2015 05:21 pm »
Pluto has an escaping atmosphere at the rate of 500 tons per hour.
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Re: LIVE: New Horizons Pluto FlyBy - July 14, 2015
« Reply #356 on: 07/17/2015 05:22 pm »
Science talk....Pluto's active, I think was the comment.
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Re: LIVE: New Horizons Pluto FlyBy - July 14, 2015
« Reply #357 on: 07/17/2015 05:23 pm »
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Re: LIVE: New Horizons Pluto FlyBy - July 14, 2015
« Reply #358 on: 07/17/2015 05:25 pm »
Features...
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Re: LIVE: New Horizons Pluto FlyBy - July 14, 2015
« Reply #359 on: 07/17/2015 05:27 pm »
Hills could have been pushed up, or "resistant to erosion" knobs.
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