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Re: New Horizons has phoned home; data forthcoming

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On 2015-07-15, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> From the «go dude, go!» department: Title: New Horizons Phones Home
> After Pluto Flyby -- Craft Healthy, Data Recorded Author:
> help@slashdot.org Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 01:08:00 -0400 Link:
> http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Nq_zO_EoH3g/new-horizons-phones-home-after-pluto-flyby----craft-healthy-data-recorded
>
> Tablizer was one of several readers to note that the New Horizons
> probe has completed its flyby of Pluto and radioed home to confirm
> that it went without incident. Mission Ops manager Alice Bowman said
> the spacecraft was healthy, full of data, and sharing telemetry. The
> images New Horizon collected haven't been downloaded yet, but NASA
> decided to tide us over by releasing this high-resolution view from
> the day before. It was taken when the probe was still 768,000
> kilometers away with a resolution of 3.8km per pixel. (Closest
> approach was approximately 12,500km.) They also released an
> exaggerated-color image of Pluto and Charon which highlights the
> non-uniformity of both worlds. Pictures from closest approach are not
> yet available. Expect another post late Wednesday or early Thursday
> with those images. The reason for this is that New Horizons can't take
> pictures and send them to us at the same time, so imaging activity is
> interspersed with downlinks to Earth to transmit data. Emily
> Lakdawalla has posted a downlink schedule. On Wednesday afternoon
> (ET), the probe will transmit three images of Pluto that were taken
> from 77,000km away, with a resolution of 0.4 km per pixel. They'll be
> the first three pieces of a mosaic of Pluto's surface, and the dwarf
> planet will fill all three frames. It will take a full 16 months for
> New Horizons to transmit all the data it collects.  (Lakdawalla also
> added Pluto to a montage of the biggest non-planets in the solar
> system. New Horizon's measurements indicate Pluto is slightly larger
> than we thought. It's now considered the largest of the Kuiper Belt
> objects.
>
> [image 2][1][image 4][3][image 6][5]
>
> Read more of this story[7] at Slashdot.

Feed: The Register
Title: New Horizons: We've got a pretty picture of Pluto. Now for the
SCIENCE
Author: Iain Thomson
Link:
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/14/pluto_n
ew_horizons_science/
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 19:30:41 -0400

Why this three-billion-mile journey was worth it

Comment  With everyone going ape over the stunning crisp pictures from
NASA's New Horizons probe of the dwarf freezeworld Pluto[1], there are
few voices asking if it was worth sending out a space probe to the far
end of the Solar System – but it wasn't always that way.…

Links:
[1]:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/13/the_register_has_a_natter_with_n
asas_new_horizons_it_crowd/ (link)

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