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Pluto Pictures Perfectly Pulchritudinous - UPDATE

posted by janrinok on Wednesday July 15 2015, @06:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the amazingly-assonant-aliteration dept.

As of this morning, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has flown by Pluto. Early images (here and here) are the best glimpses we have had of the dwarf planet. More detailed pictures are expected to be released this afternoon and over the next 16 months.

Update: New Horizons is expected to call home at 8:53 PM EDT.

Update: Contact with New Horizons re-established! Telemetry download has begun.

Update: New Horizons team unveils its first findings from the Pluto flypast – that briefing is on Wednesday at 3pm ET [sic] (8pm BST/Thursday 5am AEST) [updated at 14:59 UTC 15 July]

 
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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday July 15 2015, @11:52AM

    by VLM (445) on Wednesday July 15 2015, @11:52AM (#209314)

    Thats the famous last pic from before the flyby, not actual flyby pic.

    Its interesting that in mass media generally all reports contain only pre-flyby pics in stories about the flyby.

    I want to see the flyby pics, they'll be much higher resolution.

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