ok, well not going

New Horizons will be flying by...

i cant stop watching this video

https://youtu.be/aky9FFj4ybE

unfortunately i will probably be in a place with limited internet access but best believe i will be following this

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/

http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-announces-television-coverage-media-activities-for-pluto-flyby

July 14
7:30 a.m. – Media Briefing: Arrival at Pluto, Inside the Pluto System and New Horizons’ Perilous Path (live on NASA TV)

At 7:49 a.m., the New Horizons spacecraft will make history as flies past Pluto, after a journey of more than nine years and 3 billion miles. For much of the day the New Horizons spacecraft will be out of communication with mission control as it gathers data on Pluto and its moons.

The moment of closest approach will be marked with a live NASA TV broadcast that includes a countdown, a discussion of images and data received thus far, and what’s expected next as New Horizons makes its way past Pluto and potentially dangerous debris. Follow the path of the spacecraft in real time with a visualization of the actual trajectory data, using NASA’s Eyes on Pluto.

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oh and downloading this app, mos def

http://www.plutosafari.com/

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/

ie they actually made it to pluto hours earlier


also related- that craft that landed on the comet and fell asleep

...just woke back up

>ie they actually made it to pluto hours earlier

so i dont know.
regardless im too excited about this
and yes, philae woke up!

my favourite space-craft is voyager
since 1977 and still going... and will probably just keep going
even after they cant transmit back to earth

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/details.php?id=1215

sorry americans, the rest of the world does not do miles.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bridaineparnell/2015/06/23/new-horizons-sees-mysterious-dark-patch-on-plutos-moon/

New Horizons Sees Mysterious Dark Patch On Pluto's Moon
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NASA’s New Horizons has spotted a dark, “anti-polar” cap on Pluto’s moon Charon, as the craft draws nearer to its rendezvous with the dwarf planet.

The far-flung probe is still three weeks away from its closest pass to Pluto and its five moons, but the mission team is making new discoveries every day from its reports.

Using its telescopic Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), New Horizons has been able to spot light and dark terrain and what looks like a polar ice cap on Pluto, and now a dark anti-polar cap on Charon.

“This system is just amazing,” said Alan Stern, New Horizons Principal Investigator, from the Southwest Research Institute, in a statement. “The science team is just ecstatic with what we see on Pluto’s close approach hemisphere: Every terrain type we see on the planet – including both the brightest and darkest surface areas – are represented there, it’s a wonderland!

“And about Charon – wow – I don’t think anyone expected Charon to reveal a mystery like dark terrains at its pole,” he continued. “Who ordered that?”

etc etc.

some pretty good videos on nasa's website