Nearly 3 billion miles from Earth, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has spent approximately 2,000 days in hibernation since its January 2006 launch... (http://www.sciencerecorder.com/news/nasas-new-horizons-will-begin-studying-the-strange-world-of-pluto/)
... and will need at least the next 3 weeks of updates to compile via apt-get dist-upgrade
Just saying... ???
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.
I am waiting for these as well.. it is finally time that Pluto got some love again
+10 for Pluto
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.
Quote+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/
New Horizons Images of Pluto (https://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-wows-in-spectacular-new-backlit-panorama)
awesome stuff
@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