Huh... it seems it has a very thin atmosphere... and those spots look like... clouds? I don't know.
Looks like topography to me, highly doubt it's atmosphere/clouds.
Huh... it seems it has a very thin atmosphere... and those spots look like... clouds? I don't know.
I don't think what you are seeing is atmosphere and cloud. Pluto's atmosphere is pretty much like vacuum.
NASA released some new images, must have been taken before the glitch.
Someone tell ThinkGeek to fix the color of their Pluto glass.
That color is false, pluto is probably grey-white like all icy planetoids and moons. Being colored is usually sign of atmosphere or geological activity which i doubt pluto has.
While the images are enhanced, the colour looks to be correct. Wiki has a quote suggesting it's between Mars' and Io's rednesses.That color is false, pluto is probably grey-white like all icy planetoids and moons. Being colored is usually sign of atmosphere or geological activity which i doubt pluto has.
That color is false, pluto is probably grey-white like all icy planetoids and moons. Being colored is usually sign of atmosphere or geological activity which i doubt pluto has.
I'm curious, how can we have photographs of nebulae abd stuff from lightyears away but not up close shots of Pluto? Can't the Hubble just zoom in?
No, it has to do with scale. Like if the Pillars of Creation are 100K times as far from Earth as Pluto is, but it's 100MM times larger than Pluto, then we're going to be able to get a picture 1000 times clearer. Those aren't the right numbers, but you get the idea.
I'm curious, how can we have photographs of nebulae abd stuff from lightyears away but not up close shots of Pluto? Can't the Hubble just zoom in?
Did NASA forget the 1st July leap second?
I'm curious, how can we have photographs of nebulae abd stuff from lightyears away but not up close shots of Pluto? Can't the Hubble just zoom in?
I'm curious, how can we have photographs of nebulae abd stuff from lightyears away but not up close shots of Pluto? Can't the Hubble just zoom in?
Someone tell ThinkGeek to fix the color of their Pluto glass.
Huh... it seems it has a very thin atmosphere... and those spots look like... clouds? I don't know.
Why did people think Pluto was blue? I mean we've had this orange/grey/black Hubble image for a while now.
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These photos were released only in 2010, most of us probably base their expectations of Pluto's appearance on textbooks and pictures of Pluto used by the media in 2006 when IAU decided on a definition of the planet. I probably saw it before but I still expected it to be more ice blue rather than orange.
These photos were released only in 2010, most of us probably base their expectations of Pluto's appearance on textbooks and pictures of Pluto used by the media in 2006 when IAU decided on a definition of the planet. I probably saw it before but I still expected it to be more ice blue rather than orange.
I assume Pluto has traditionally been depicted as a bluish color because cold=blue in most people's minds.
As far as I know Pluto was always depicted as brownish. This Pluto as blueish is totally new to me.
NASA released some new images, must have been taken before the glitch.
Someone did some research about this
I would've thought Pluto would be grey/white, like the moon. Really looking forward to seeing better pictures soon!
Mmmm, I have a 90's book about the solar system which paint pluto grey. Its not the tint of red it seems to have now, but it was definetly not blue. In fact that glass is the first time I see someone depicting pluto blue.
But mission managers have now reported that New Horizons has resumed operations on its main computer and the sequence of commands for the Pluto flyby have been uploaded.
An investigation into the anomaly on July 4th has confirmed that the main computer was overloaded due to a timing conflict in the spacecraft command sequence. Basically, the computer was trying to receive a large command load at the same time as it was trying to compress previous science data. When presented with the overload, the computer behaved as it was programmed to, entering safe mode and switching to the backup.
Thirty planned observations were lost during the three-day recovery period, but that represents less than a per cent of the total science the New Horizons team is hoping to collect between July 4th and July 16th.
NASA New Horizons
‏@NASANewHorizons
Team celebrates confirmation from mission control that were Pluto bound, #PlutoFlyBy sequence officially underway.
11:39 AM - 7 Jul 2015
Edit - Update:
The overall color is believed to be a result of ultraviolet radiation from the distant sun breaking up methane present on Pluto's surface, leaving behind a dark and red-carbon-rich residue
Someone tell ThinkGeek to fix the color of their Pluto glass.
If it's indeed natural orange it's really itneresting. Mars take his red color from his primitive oxigen atmosphere which then all oxidated the iron and carbon present on the surface. But pluto shouldn't have been able to retain an atmosphere at all with his size.
Found this possible explanation for the color:
The sun, ever so amazing, even at that distance.
I don't think I've ever seen planets given male pronouns...
Just thinking how close we are to getting high resolution images from Pluto amazes me.New image released today
Nice!!!New image released today:
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-s-new-horizons-a-heart-from-pluto-as-flyby-begins