Pluto's Surface

[dogm45 10,593]

Here is a surface image provided by New Horizons space probe from NASA. Note the mountains!

Edited July 15, 2015 by dogm45

[crackgold2 399]

hi there

[DarkOperative 5,580]

WAIIT! Wasn't pluto intentionally destroyed out of our Solar system or something?  :huh:

[dogm45 10,593]

NASA launched this space probe 9 years ago and finally reached it's destination! 

[shadewarttt 3,350]

WAIIT! Wasn't pluto intentionally destroyed out of our Solar system or something?  :huh:

Intentionally destroyed by whom? Darth Vader? 

[HichigoShiiro 4,378]

Cant wait to find out how far this probe can go.

[genak138 950]

WAIIT! Wasn't pluto intentionally destroyed out of our Solar system or something?  :huh:

No :mellow: Maybe you're thinking about when Pluto was announced to not be a planet.

But pluto will always be a planet to me :wub:

[fighter309 384]

Awesome! Outer space always fascinates me. 

 

Just for fun... cannot be unseen >.< 

 

 

 

[deadmanrising 715]

Cant wait to find out how far this probe can go.

It will lose connection within a few years so we wont be able to track it

[dilsharox 2,395]

WOW

[beaku 2,656]

It will lose connection within a few years so we wont be able to track it

Voyager 1 is on edge of solar system and still communicating after 37 years. :D

[BlitzPanzer12345 241]

Letz hope that probe comes back in one piece

[shadewarttt 3,350]

Letz hope that probe comes back in one piece

It won't come back. 

[BlitzPanzer12345 241]

y not ?

is it a suicide probe like viking 1 and 2 ?

[ArcticCow 454]

y not ?

is it a suicide probe like viking 1 and 2 ?

Probes that go very very far are only for one time they cannot return and they will do what they were made for until they expire.

[tanker538N 394]

WAIIT! Wasn't pluto intentionally destroyed out of our Solar system or something?  :huh:

Uhh.....are you talking about when it was disqualified as a planet? :l

Anyways, the probe has finally reached its destination :3

[momy950666 960]

WOW

[Scientist 4,224]

I've been waiting for New Horizons to get there since 2008-ish )). I was really excited about this and was doing the 10-sec countdown at home when it was about to get closest to Pluto. 

Waiting till October of 2016 for all of the images New Horizons took to reach the Earth :)

 

PS

Check this out ;)

https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/CJ_E7eEWsAQPLyK.mp4

Edited July 16, 2015 by Schism

[beaku 2,656]

y not ?

is it a suicide probe like viking 1 and 2 ?

What do you mean, 'suicide' probes? It's too costly to bring them back. Also, it's useless to bring them back.

We don't yet have the technology required to go that far and come back. That's why humans have not been able to go to Mars. :D

[golden5648 1,686]

NASA launched this space probe 9 years ago and finally reached it's destination! 

Thats great!

[Penguin40 1,714]

Wow. I never knew that till two days ago. When New Horizons was closest to Pluto.

[drazeruzumaki 5,021]

looks like when i made the surface of moon using newspaper mash :o

[sahl_super 157]

Wow !

 

I think it's gost mountain :P

[Sr.I3oSS 2,546]

Can't believe it's been 7 and a 1/2 years since 2008 :P I'd been thinking Pluto had come to an end until 2011 I got interested in Astronomy. So I eventually found out in 2011 that it was just declared too small to be a planet, smaller than that of the Earth's moon. Well, I hope we find some interesting information with that probe... Go Humans :P

[Heles 9,220]

Finally we get to see the real Pluto after many years