NASA's New Horizons will begin studying the strange world of Pluto

[VastOne]

Nearly 3 billion miles from Earth, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has spent approximately 2,000 days in hibernation since its January 2006 launch...

... and will need at least the next 3 weeks of updates to compile via apt-get dist-upgrade

Just saying... 

[Digit]

i am so excited.  more excited than i've been for any other space mission.

next 6 months+ are gonna be exciting times... to finally get clear pictured of pluto and its (just?) 5 moons.

some day, we'll send out a probe to rendezvous with eris too.    i bet it has undiscovered moons too.


i'm rather hoping for a nice clear shot showing the contrast between charon's dark grey, and pluto's reddish hues.

[VastOne]

I am waiting for these as well.. it is finally time that Pluto got some love again

[PackRat]

+10 for Pluto

[Digit]

http://science.nasa.gov/missions/new-horizons/
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/?keywords=new-horizons
http://www.space.com/18377-new-horizons.html (latest news at the side)
soon.

+10 for Pluto

hehe.  i like that,
since pluto's the tenth primary body in our system. 
(yes, the tenth.   10 pluto.  9 neptune.  8 oorrahnoos*.  7 saturn.  6 jupiter.  5 mars.  4 earth.  3 venus.  2 mercury.  1 sol.   hehe, see, i'm not crazy)
(*i'm spelling it more phonetically these days, tired of the old joke in the mispronunciation that many are starting to think is the correct pronunciation.)

ps, i wonder if there'll be stuff on http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
pps, mms shud b up there now too. http://mms.gsfc.nasa.gov/

[PackRat]

New Horizons Images of Pluto

awesome stuff

[zephyr]

@PackRat:  Who would have thought that Pluto being considered a distant ball of ice and rock, now has a lot more going on.  Very interesting, enjoyed the photos and info.  Maybe a rethink of Pluto being a dwarf planet is in order.

It is interesting that Pluto and Neptune trade places ever so often being the furtherest out from the Sun. (about every 230 years)

Cheers
zephyr