I give you Pluto, enjoy

I'm posting the link because I'm not sure yet if the guy is OK having his image copied.

http://spaceweathergallery.com/full_image.php?image_name=Brent-1111XXX11111AAA_1436878926.jpg

New Horizons' webpage

 

New Horizons is supposed to call home in about 30 minutes.

 

I'm not looking at any images of Pluto until they promote it to a planet again.

 

A thing of beauty. And to think the sunlight reaching the surface is about 1/2500th per square meter of that reaching the surface of Earth's moon. Must be like photographing a landscape a couple hours after sundown.

 

Dammit, if only Carl Sagan were still alive. He'd have something big and thought-inspiring to say about this.

 

You need a healthy serving of Neil deGrasse Tyson, he'll set you straight on why it's better the be the largest Kuiper Belt Object than the smallest planet.

 

And yet it reflects enough sunlight to be seen in a telescope.

By the way, New Horizons phoned home right on time. It'll be a while before we have the new images.

 

Alice Bowman:
APL’s First Female MOM (Mission Operations Manager)

 

Awesome

[not my joke]

 

VADER: "Commander, I was told you'd double your men to make this station operational. What is the meaning of this!?"

COMMANDER JERJERROD: "Uh..." *gulp* "We kind of lost it for thirty years but-" *ackackgaspgaspchoke*

VADER: *dropping Jerjerrod* Your failure is noted, Commander.

 

So awe-inspiring!
The more we know just shows how much we don't know.

 

Pretty! Reminds me of the moon.

 

Fun fact, Pluto is smaller than the Moon.

 

It's wrinkled like elephant skin:


The gallery

 

Live streaming video conference:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

 

Apparently those wrinkles are ~11,000 foot (3,350 meters) high mountains.

http://www.whatsupthespaceplace.com/2015/07/pluto-flyby-1st-images-wow-oh-wow.html