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This is surreal footage from the New Horizons probe. it's the first time a Kuiper belt body is finally caught on camera.

 

And it's truly bizarre looking alien world, worthy of a 1970's on-acid scy fi painting.

 

It started like this:

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and now looks like this (latest pictures)

 

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The probe wil reach the closest approach pint tomorrow and Wednesday it will transmit photos with a resolution of 90m per pixel (about 270 feet).

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a little doc:

 

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Agreed! And it's amazing to me how quickly the encounter has happened. Not even a week ago there were barely any surface features visible, and now New Horizons has already sped past Pluto and is on its way further out.

 

I am very excited to see the up-close and high-resolution images over the next few days!

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latest photo. The probe will be out of contact while aiming the cameras at pluto and its moons and will resume uploading more tomorrow.

 

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Press conference starting on NASA TV in a few minutes. Excited about the new pictures we'll see.

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I can hardly believe they are geologically active ... what?! :huh:

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Yep. Pretty amazing. Those mountains on Pluto are almost 3.5 kilometres high. There must be a source of heat driving the activity and because Pluto and Charon are tidally locked it can't be tidal heating like we see at Io. The fact that a small world like Charon is active makes the rest of the Kuiper belt a lot more interesting. Next press conference will be Friday 13:00 EST and full data download will take 16 months, so stand by for much more exciting stuff to come.

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heres the conference summed up:

 

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The fact that a small world like Charon is active makes the rest of the Kuiper belt a lot more interesting.

 

That seems to be a trend I'm noticing. The more we learn about these worlds, the more interesting they become.

 

I just gotta say, I think it's pretty awesome that we (all of us) are the first people to see what Pluto looks like. Ever. In the whole history of the universe, we are the first. That's pretty cool.

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It still works for me.

 

https://youtu.be/EE86qOpkaMo

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-15/pluto-planet-dog-before-after/6620914

 

Mind completely blown. Once you see it you will never un-see it.

 

simply amazing....

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I think this video is perfect to inspire the motivation towards space exploration :)

 

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