At long last.....

[madHatter]

Pluto.

9 years and some 3+ billion miles later we have our first images of the planet/satellite.

Pretty sweet!

 

[AtlMedic]

that is so cool.

 

[EugenFJR]

Looks cold...

 

[Willy Leadwell]

I feel pretty out of the loop on this whole Pluto deal. When I was in school it was a planet, then it's no longer planet. I haven't really read up on it.

So is this thing just going to cruise by and that's it, they have no way of controlling it? Either way, it's pretty impressive

 

[Woodstock]

did they land on it or just do a fly by. if fly by, where next?

 

[Willy Leadwell]

Looks cold...

That's a loooooonnng ass way from the sun, so I'm sure you're right.

 

[AirOpsMgr]

http://www.theguardian.com/science/...es-pluto-flyby-nine-years-after-leaving-earth

 

[Shemp]

Looks like a big heart on it

 

[EugenFJR]

I just wounder what it might find next... For some reason it reminds me of the expression " If your lost in the woods, should you cry out for help?"

 

[Shemp]

I just wounder what it might find next... For some reason it reminds me of the expression " If your lost in the woods, should you cry out for help?"

I've genuinely never heard that before...but we have a couple other probes that are well past Pluto...

 

[Shemp]

The spacecraft is powered by a nuclear generator that runs on plutonium, a substance named after the dwarf planet. The generator should run until the 2030s, when New Horizons will be 100 times further away than Earth is from the sun.

suitcase nuke

 

[EugenFJR]

suitcase nuke

Oh, thats what Iran is going to use them for... I should have guessed, they want to start a space program.