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In just 53 days, Nasa's New Horizons will reach Pluto.

Will there be more than ice? Does it have Disney figures? Where does it go afterwards?

>> No.7277986

>>7277982
> more than ice?
>willing to sacrifice

>> No.7278000

I hope it's so cool that they make it a planet again. They should have never demoted it, it's just too famous. #Exceptionforpluto

>> No.7278008

Since it's in a locked orbit with Neptune, should be unique enough to be a planet.

>53 days
Hype!

>> No.7278018

>>7277982
How detailed an image are we getting?
How close will it be?

>> No.7278027

>>7277982
If there's anything other than ice and rock we sure as hell won't know about it.

>> No.7278030

>>7278018
13,695 km i've heard

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>>7278030
>New Horizons is intended to pass within 10,000 km (6,200 mi) of Pluto, with this closest approach date estimated to occur on July 14, 2015 at 11:50 UTC.
>Simulated view of Pluto (right) and Charon (left) at New Horizons's closest point of approach on July 14, 2015

Fuck yes! Closeups of Pluto and Charon!

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>>7277982
At least Pluto is not as dark as Ceres. The best resolution will be about 400m/pixel compared to 35m/pixel for the Dawn framing camera.

>> No.7278177

>>7278027
>If there's anything other than ice and rock we sure as hell won't know about it.

W-why not?

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There are raw images already, but just dots at the distance it is at now. Maybe you need more space dots;
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounter/index.php
Pic is my messing about with an image, is that a surface feature? Who knows.

>> No.7280497

>>7278027
>>7278177

This is partially true, strictly speaking. The thought experiment has to do, with what the probe is designed to do.

If somehow, there were a very few, seemingly benign microorganisms on Pluto, and some other hypothetical lander landed and documented these in today's world, then this would be acceptable information to disseminate.

If, however, there were literally a great big sign on Pluto which reads "HELL IS REAL. 20 YEARS." or somesuch, then this would be suppressed, unless one of the scientists were a christfag who felt compelled to disseminate, in which case it would be pretty easy for him to be dismissed by TPTB as a crank, given the enormous strangeness of the story.

Or, if anything else sufficiently ridiculous or frightening were discovered, then they'd make something else up if at all possible. The trick is, what do you do with any pesky, principled scientists who knowingly saw the original, uncorrupted feed. The options are dismissal via the media, or disappearance.

>> No.7280503

>>7280497

There is no reason for anyone to "suppress" anything and no reason to suspect NASA would do so.

>> No.7280507

>>7280497

Other sign idea:

DEAD NIGGER STORAGE

>> No.7280530

>>7280503

Spoken like someone who has never sat quietly in a secure control room, in the early morning, waiting with baited breath for the images to download, only to find that

BABA BOOEY BABA BOOEY HOWARD STERN'S PENIS

is scrawled in gigantic letter across the surface.

>> No.7280558

>>7277982
53 days till we get to see the charon mass relay. woo!

>> No.7280713

>>7280558
>implying were not the ancient who have to go and build it

>> No.7280800

>>7280558
And the Goa'uld spot us
And the Covenant
And the Vulcans... no wait for that we need a warp drive

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>>7280713

>> No.7281242

why does Nasa always give us shit pictures like this but their hubble can see galaxies?

/sci/ should just drop those liars.

>> No.7281327

>>7280503
oh really?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2FTZhyuJy8

ever notice how low quality pictures we get of the mars surface?

>> No.7281360

>>7281242
Why do you always post such retarded posts when you have infinite knowledge at your fingertips

>> No.7282518

>>7281242
For the same reason your eyes can see craters on the moon 250,000 miles away but can't read the small print on a newspaper from 25 feet away.

>> No.7282541

IT'S OUR FIRST CLOSE UP PICTURE OF A DUAL (dwarf) PLANET

What's that? Earth's a dual planet?

NO, NO. ALL WRONG. ALL WRONG.

>> No.7282557

>>7281327
>ever notice how low quality pictures we get of the mars surface?

Not really...

>> No.7282565

>>7282518
Is it something to do with focal distance?

>> No.7282584

>>7282565
>Is it something to do with focal distance?

No, it's just a matter of scale. Craters on the moon are a lot bigger than newsprint. Galaxies are a lot bigger than planets. It only seems contradictory because you don't have a proper sense of the scale of galaxies.

The Hubble Telescope has a mirror 2.4 m across. That means its maximum resolution for an object a billion light years away is about 200 LIGHTYEARS per pixel, which is still good enough to get a good image of a galaxy, which might be 100,000 lightyears across. For an object as close as Pluto, one pixel is about 1000 km, which is only ~2400 km across to begin with.

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>>7281327
>low quality pictures we get of the mars surface
preview pic, full size 1.9MB or TIFF
Mars Express Stereo Cam

>> No.7282683

>>7281327
What exactly are you expecting to see?

>> No.7284149

>>7282621
Mars Express isn't NASA.