Tag: Pluto
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3D Photos of Pluto Show Ice Volcanoes?
Ice Volcanoes Unique To Pluto NASA’s recent 3D images of Pluto show two mountains on the dwarf planet that could be ice volcanoes. Scientists called the objects cryovolcanoes and say that the formations could have been active in the recent past. Pluto’s ice volcanoes cover a huge area and rise to over 3.5 miles…
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Blue Sky And Water On Pluto!
We Have Water (And Blue Skies) On Pluto Too? … Pluto continues to surprise us. First we find a surface that’s amazing, then we find what we think are hydro-thermal vents. On top of that, New Horizons shows evidence of Nitrogen glaciers of all things (Nitrogen is usually a gas). More photos come in…
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Amazing New Pluto Images Arrive
Pluto is fascinating … We’ve seen the moon up close, even Mars with the rover missions. We’ve watched an asteroid break apart in space and absolutely pummel Jupiter. But Pluto, once a planet then downgraded … way out at the end of our solar system, well there’s just something special about seeing it up…
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Nitrogen Glaciers On Pluto?
New Horizons’ exploration of Pluto is incredible Pluto continues to impress. Photos from the New Horizons mission are continuing to come in and as can be seen from the article below, some indicate there are glaciers on Pluto, perhaps similar in nature to glaciers on Earth. But one big difference here … the glaciers…
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Pluto Update
Pluto is still giving us surprises With the latest updates from Nasa, we see Pluto actually has an atmosphere, some interesting geological features and a red region on one of its moons that is causing some excitement. Granted, the atmosphere is not one that we could live in, but that it even has one is…
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(Video) New Horizons Visits The Last Of Our Solar System Planets
July 15 2015 NASA/John Hopkins Media Briefing Is Simply Riveting! NASA/John Hopkins press conference videos are all on one page, so rather than the direct link I usually provide for other videos like YouTube, this will be a two step process … but well worth the extra click. Press conferences from as far back as…
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New Horizons: Pluto Photos Leading up to the Closest Approach
What Are Those Dark Spots All About? Time late for a current events type post, but this article discusses some key questions scientists were asking – and I assume hoping to find out once New Horizons took as much data as it could during the July 14, 2015 closest approach fly-by. We are starting to…
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(Video) New Horizons – What’s After Pluto?
The Pluto Fly By Is Done – So What’s Next? The Pluto fly by today was fabulous, and it will take about 16 months for all the data New Horizons took to actually make it back to Earth for analysis. I had no idea it would take that long, but thinking about that, 3.65 billion…
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(Video) New Horizons – Very Close To Pluto Now!
Excitement Is Building! New Horizons passed by Mars’ orbital path in April of 2006, did a Jupiter fly by in Feb 2007 and crossed Saturn’s orbital path in June of 2008. At over 51,000 miles per hour, it had already traveled 1 billion miles to get that far, but wasn’t even half way yet, even…
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(Video) The Year of Pluto – New Horizons Documentary Brings Humanity Closer to the Edge of the Solar System
New Horizons – Pluto and Beyond So, if you can’t see Pluto well enough from Earth telescopes, what do you do? NASA said … send a probe to see. And that’s what New Horizons is all about. This documentary is a fascinating history of how Pluto was discovered, its moons, evidence that it was actually…