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First image of Pluto revealed by New Horizons

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Fasten your seat belts, space cadets: We’re officially in the final countdown to NASA’s 3-billion-mile journey to Pluto.

Pluto was actually still a planet when the space agency launched the mission in early 2006. (In case you’ve been living in a crater for the past nine years, Pluto was unceremoniously demoted due to its size that same summer. It’s now considered a “dwarf planet” — which I’m assured by our HR department is a perfectly acceptable term to use — or a “plutoid,” if you’re feeling politically correct.)

Today, the agency’s unmanned New Horizons spacecraft is in a galaxy far, far away — or, at least, at the edge of our solar system. Earlier this morning it brushed up against the former planet’s private space, coming within 8,000 miles of the dwarf — err, plutoid. While we won’t get the full scope of NASA’s findings for a while, details about the enigmatic Pluto are slowly but surely trickling in.
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https://www.yahoo.com/tech/7-fascina...020995919.html

Fascinating!:flutter:

..I know, I love this..:lovedup:..it's such an incredible pic as well, just wow that we can see it so clearly when it's so far away...

Yes be Great when it reaches the 2nd Earth
my birth place

Amazing especially considering how far away it is

This is very cool.

I really don't understand people that bitch about NASA or any countries space program costing too much. all those people that scream "how many starving children could have had a burger for dinner instead of this!" i want to punch them in the face.

The most recent images have caused some concern

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJ5Hn6BWoAUZ45f.jpg

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Originally Posted by MTVN (Post 8003079)

The most recent images have caused some concern

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Great promo from lucasfilm. I mean sending that up to space in 06 to begin promo :worship:

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Originally Posted by MTVN (Post 8003079)

The most recent images have caused some concern

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJ5Hn6BWoAUZ45f.jpg

:joker:

How long before someone posts a pic of uranus. :hehe:

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Originally Posted by Johnnyuk123 (Post 8018025)

How long before someone posts a pic of uranus. :hehe:

typical rik mayal :hehe:

I love stuff like this