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New Horizons Pluto Probe Answers Its Wake-up Call From Three Billion Miles Away!

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New Horizons Pluto Probe Answers Its Wake-up Call From Three Billion Miles Away - Forbes

Cool!

Every month from now on, we will get clearer and clearer images of this visually elusive planet, (yeah, l know, drawf, but l will call it a planet).

  • Profile picture of the author teamfraggle
    Amazing stuff...I think Carolyn Porco is on the imaging team??
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    This is exciting. I'm still a little miffed that they tried to take Pluto's status as a planet away. Anything with that many moons deserves to be a planets even if it is a little small.

    It will also be exciting to see the pics of the Kuiper Belt from that close up. From what I'm seeing, though, will the probe not be landing? I can't believe they sent it that far and not intend for it to land.

    I'm just glad it wasn't going to probe Uranus instead, because we'd never hear the end of the jokes over that one.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alex Blades
    That is awesome, I was wondering if it would be able to answer it's wake up call from such a far distance. Can't wait till it starts to send pictures from that distance
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    • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      This is exciting. I'm still a little miffed that they tried to take Pluto's status as a planet away. Anything with that many moons deserves to be a planets even if it is a little small.

      It will also be exciting to see the pics of the Kuiper Belt from that close up. From what I'm seeing, though, will the probe not be landing? I can't believe they sent it that far and not intend for it to land.

      I'm just glad it wasn't going to probe Uranus instead, because we'd never hear the end of the jokes over that one.
      LOL, yes Claude would hijack the thread and send it off the rails, (nothing new there).

      I agree with the moons, it might be small but will probably have as many moons as some of our bigger gas giants!

      No, nothing will be landing there, but it should have active geysers, like Neptures moon!

      Maybe even frozen lakes, drool, time will tell?


      Yes, the Kyper belt objects, they have pinpointed a few that they can reach after the Pluto encounter! They only have so much fuel available.

      It should be like when Voyager first got to Jupiter, or Saturn, exciting stuff!

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  • Profile picture of the author Kurt
    Shouldn't we check with Mickey before anyone probes Pluto?

    (I don't need no stinking "Uranus" to make probing jokes.)
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  • Profile picture of the author nidhish
    I agree it would be awesome to see the images of Pluto.. but wouldn't it be awesome if we found some aliens ruins as well .
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    • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
      Originally Posted by nidhish View Post

      I agree it would be awesome to see the images of Pluto.. but wouldn't it be awesome if we found some aliens ruins as well .
      It would be but don't count on it!
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