NASA releases the first video of Pluto from New Horizons probe
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3. ringmaster commented 9 years ago
#2 I hope Disney Pluto confirms that in one of your dreams
The colour filter is there to receive information in multiple wavelengths so they can sample more data than just a normal tape / video. But others with greater knowledge about this have to explain further...
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The colour filter is there to receive information in multiple wavelengths so they can sample more data than just a normal tape / video. But others with greater knowledge about this have to explain further...
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4. fjwjr commented 9 years ago
How much time and money was spent to get that? NASA fail......
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5. captain_obvious commented 9 years ago
@4 Fail?! it is for a good reason that this is the first video of its kind, look it up and try to learn something
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9. captain_obvious commented 9 years ago
New Horizons spacecraft as it passed by Pluto in July! But it’s not your ordinary movie … it’s actually taking a spectrum of Pluto, mapping out minerals on its surface as the world sweeps by underneath.
copy/paste http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/12/24/video_of_leisa_spectrum_of_pluto_makes_it_look_like_stained_glass.html
also imagine the insaine distance to pluto. its so small and the solar system is so big. even if you know where it is, it is still a pain to find it. every picture and movie of pluto is very rare.
copy/paste http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/12/24/video_of_leisa_spectrum_of_pluto_makes_it_look_like_stained_glass.html
also imagine the insaine distance to pluto. its so small and the solar system is so big. even if you know where it is, it is still a pain to find it. every picture and movie of pluto is very rare.
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10. celestus87 commented 9 years ago
#2 It's actually 90° off being gay... So, -if my trigonometry calculations are correct- that would make it straight. ![8-)](//snotr.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/images/smilies/glasses.png)
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11. Kenuty commented 9 years ago
@#8 since I don't want to type it out for you here you go
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/12/24/video_of_leisa_spectrum_of_pluto_makes_it_look_like_stained_glass.html
Basically Tldr, it maps out specturms to see the minerals on pluto.
That's part of the reason but more explained there.
One must pursue knowledge to obtain it.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/12/24/video_of_leisa_spectrum_of_pluto_makes_it_look_like_stained_glass.html
Basically Tldr, it maps out specturms to see the minerals on pluto.
That's part of the reason but more explained there.
One must pursue knowledge to obtain it.
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12. 1010010010101 commented 9 years ago
#11. Not necessarily. I was once walking beneath the window of the school library, minding my own business, when an encyclopedia fell on my head. ![:|](//snotr.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/images/smilies/plain.png)
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+1 1. Judge-Jake commented 9 years ago