Friday, July 17, 2015

PLUTO!

I've always been fascinated with Astronomy, and the latest NASA mission New Horizons has just completed a flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto, so I feel the need to share some of that awesomeness.

This is how clearly we used to be able to see Pluto:

It's out there somewhere...


Once the Hubble Space Telescope came online, we were able to get a closer look:
not so hot.

The latest photo comes from the New Horizons probe, taken just a few days ago and beamed back to Earth:

just... wow.

From a favorite webcomic of mine, XKCD:


And since this is a card blog, how about showing my only Pluto card:
Part of the "One Little Corner" subset, Pluto's card seems to be using the Hubble image as its inspiration.

Science is awesome!

3 comments:

  1. You learn something everyday. Mega Man is on Pluto!

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  2. The next few months will be pretty exciting, as more of the photos trickle in (at 1kbps, I've heard)!

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    1. It made me think of this scene from "hackers"
      https://youtu.be/f3L8uak2mdg

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