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Subject: Pluto photographs thrill Nasa scientists after nine-year mission
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/15 at 11:09 am
Nasa spacecraft makes history as the first spacecraft to reach distant dwarf planet, the last unexplored world in solar system
Cheers, whoops and flag waving broke out at Nasa’s New Horizons control centre as scientists celebrated the spacecraft’s dramatic flyby of Pluto, considered the last unexplored world in the solar system.
The probe shot past at more than 28,000mph (45,000 km/h) at 12.49pm BST (7.49am ET) on a trajectory that brought the fastest spacecraft ever to leave Earth’s orbit within 7,770 miles of Pluto’s surface.
The moment, played out on Tuesday to the sound of The Final Countdown by the 1980s glam metal band Europe, marked a historic achievement for the US, which can now claim to be the only nation to have visited every planet in the classical solar system.
“It feels good,” said Alan Stern, lead scientist on the mission. “So many people put so much work into this around the country. We’ve completed the initial reconnaissance of the solar system, an endeavour started under President Kennedy.”
John Grunsfeld, head of Nasa’s science mission directorate, said that images beamed back from New Horizons on its approach showed Pluto to be an “extraordinarily interesting and complex world”.
“It’s just amazing. It’s truly a hallmark in human history,” he said of the encounter with Pluto. “It’s been an incredible voyage.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9769748.ece/alternates/w620/Pluto-REX-v3.jpg
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/14/nasas-new-horizons-probe-makes-pluto-flyby-nine-years-after-leaving-earth
Subject: Re: Pluto photographs thrill Nasa scientists after nine-year mission
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/15 at 11:10 am
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Subject: Re: Pluto photographs thrill Nasa scientists after nine-year mission
Written By: nally on 07/15/15 at 11:42 pm
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Hee hee! :D
Subject: Re: Pluto photographs thrill Nasa scientists after nine-year mission
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/15 at 6:40 am
Amazing high resolution images of Pluto give first ever close-up glimpse of dwarf planet
http://www.standard.co.uk/incoming/article10392172.ece/alternates/w620/pluto1607a.jpg
One of the first high-res images of Pluto shows a region near its equator where mountains rise as high as 11,000 feet (Picture: NASA/APL/SwRI via Getty Images)
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/amazing-highresolution-images-of-pluto-give-first-ever-closeup-glimpse-of-dwarf-planet-10392187.html
Subject: Re: Pluto photographs thrill Nasa scientists after nine-year mission
Written By: Howard on 07/16/15 at 2:50 pm
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That's cool.