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New Horizons (Pluto probe) is 20 million miles closer in a single month
Posted on 5/28/15 at 10:30 pm
Posted on 5/28/15 at 10:30 pm
It is getting 750,000 miles closer to Pluto every day.
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The images were taken from just under 50 million miles (77 million kilometers) away, using the Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on New Horizons. Because New Horizons was approximately 20 million miles closer to Pluto in mid-May than in mid-April, the new images contain about twice as many pixels on the object as images made in mid-April.
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This post was edited on 5/28/15 at 10:39 pm
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Posted on 5/28/15 at 10:31 pm to weagle99
Picture number 2 looks like you could Crush pluto up and snort it
Posted on 5/28/15 at 10:32 pm to weagle99
Uranus, Kingons, etc
Posted on 5/28/15 at 10:33 pm to fightingtiger2335
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Picture number 2 looks like you could Crush pluto up and snort it
strangely random...or not...
Posted on 5/28/15 at 10:34 pm to Spankum
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Following a January 2006 launch, New Horizons is currently about 2.95 billion miles from home; the spacecraft is healthy and all systems are operating normally.
Light from Earth would take almost 9 hrs to reach New Horizons.
Posted on 5/28/15 at 10:44 pm to weagle99
So in space terms, New Horizons flew to Europe
Posted on 5/28/15 at 10:53 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
My math could be fuzzy but that's 8.68 miles per second.
Damn near as fast as my Yugo.
Damn near as fast as my Yugo.
Posted on 5/28/15 at 10:56 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
Actually space terms it's probably like driving from seigen to bluebonnet in br
Posted on 5/28/15 at 11:05 pm to crazyLSUfan
ACTUALLY if you subscribe to the infinite universes theory, it's like going from where you are to where you are
Posted on 5/28/15 at 11:17 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
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So in space terms, New Horizons paddled a boat from the petite Amite to Blind River Bar
Kinda FIFY
Posted on 5/28/15 at 11:19 pm to crazyLSUfan
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Actually space terms it's probably like driving from seigen to bluebonnet in br
Ya now that I think about it to really put it into terms an ant crossed a hairline fracture in your foundation from an illustration standpoint.
I was going off travel time ie we travel by flight as humans and space travel is by light so basically 9 = 9 hours for that. And Europe is as far as we'd get but light makes it to Pluto.
frick it it's far
This post was edited on 5/28/15 at 11:21 pm
Posted on 5/28/15 at 11:35 pm to Grim
That's the correct answer lol
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