NASA has created a video of a simulated landing on the surface of Pluto using images and data taken from the New Horizons mission that sent a probe for a close pass of the dwarf planet. What would it be like to actually land on Pluto? This movie was made from more than 100 images…
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MANU the Warrior Finger Puppet Performs a Sultry Dance to the Unlike Pluto Song ‘Waiting for You’
Barnaby Dixon, the brilliant puppeteer who created incredible performing warrior finger puppet who is now legally called MANU, announced that he is working with manufacturing companies to make MANU available on the retail level at some point in the future and that he’s launched a brand new Patreon page. Afterwards MANU performed an incredibly sultry…
Pluto Through Stained Glass, A NASA Video Captured by the New Horizons Probe
“Pluto Through Stained Glass: A Movie from the Edge of the Solar System” is a NASA video captured by the LEISA infrared imaging spectrometer on the New Horizons spacecraft that shows the craft’s full spectrum view of Pluto during its flyby on July 14, 2015. The data provided by the video led to the discovery of…
Poor Little Pluto
BennuBird imagines this is how Pluto must have felt as the New Horizons space probe made its flyby. Kind of makes you feel sad for the little guy. via reddit, Nerd Approved
NASA Releases an Incredible Enhanced Color Image of Pluto
NASA has released an incredible enhanced color image of the dwarf planet Pluto taken by the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC) on the New Horizons space probe which made an historic flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015. The final image is the result of combining blue, red and infrared data from the MVIC, and users…
NASA Animation Demonstrates the Unusual Ways the Moons of Pluto Spin in Their Orbits
NASA has released an animation by astronomer Mark Showalter that demonstrates the unusual ways the moons of Pluto spin in their orbits. Most inner moons in the solar system keep one face pointed toward their central planet; this animation shows that certainly isn’t the case with the small moons of Pluto, which behave like spinning…
NASA Maps the Sputnik Planum Region of Pluto With a Colorful Key to Show the Dwarf Planet’s Diverse Geology
NASA has released a map of a large section of the Sputnik Planum region of Pluto using a colorful key to show the dwarf planet’s diverse geology. The map section covers 1,290 miles from top to bottom and highlights more than two dozen distinct terrains, defined by their texture and morphology. Data for the map…
New Horizons Mission Sends Back a Stunning Backlit Panorama of Pluto
A recent downlink from the New Horizons mission revealed a stunning backlit panorama of the dwarf planet Pluto. The image was taken just 15 minutes after the probe’s historic flyby of the Pluto system. The image gives a beautiful and detailed view of Pluto’s features. Another image gives a closer view of Pluto’s icy Sputnik Planum,…
