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"Maybe It's A Little Early. Maybe The Time's Not Quite Yet. But Those Are The Worlds Promising Untold Opportunities - Beckon. Silently, They Orbit The Sun. Waiting" - Carl Sagan
Looks Like Mars, Doesn't It?
Well, It's Not. It's Mickey Mouse's Dog, Sir Clyde Tombaugh's Greatest Discovery, And Our Favorite "Planet". PLUTO.
Are We Exited?
Yes. A LOT.
Pluto Lies Waaaay Beyond, At An Average Distance Of 7.5 Billion Kilometers From Earth. How Long Is A Distance Of 7.5 Billion Kilometers? Check It Out Here
Pluto Was First Discovered By Sir Clyde Tombaugh, Who's Ashes Are Aboard The New Horizons Spacecraft That Flew By Pluto On 13th July, 2015. The New Horizons Spacecraft's Travelling At A Speed Of About 84,000 Kilometers Per Second, VERY FAST, And So It Can't Orbit Pluto Because Of All That Speed. It Just Flies By.
Well, It's Not. It's Mickey Mouse's Dog, Sir Clyde Tombaugh's Greatest Discovery, And Our Favorite "Planet". PLUTO.
Are We Exited?
Yes. A LOT.
Pluto Lies Waaaay Beyond, At An Average Distance Of 7.5 Billion Kilometers From Earth. How Long Is A Distance Of 7.5 Billion Kilometers? Check It Out Here
Pluto Was First Discovered By Sir Clyde Tombaugh, Who's Ashes Are Aboard The New Horizons Spacecraft That Flew By Pluto On 13th July, 2015. The New Horizons Spacecraft's Travelling At A Speed Of About 84,000 Kilometers Per Second, VERY FAST, And So It Can't Orbit Pluto Because Of All That Speed. It Just Flies By.
An Artist's Concept Of How New Horizon's Close Encounter With The Pluto-Charon System Would Look Like.
All Previous Photographs Of Pluto Taken By Either The Hubble Space Telescope Or Other Ground Based Telescopes Showed, No Offense, A Dull Black And White, Pixelated Blob. We Always Wondered How Pluto's Surface Would Look Like, We Tried To Draw It, Animate, Do Anything And Everything, But The End Product Could Never Ever Ever Feel "Real" To The Eyes Of An Astrophotographer. That's Why, I Among With Hundreds Of Millions Of Other Citizens Of Earth, Believe That New Horizons Has Done A Frigging Awesome Job.
Hubble's "Best View" Of Pluto
Launched Nine Years Earlier, New Horizons' Primary Goal Was to Map The Surface Contours Of Pluto And It's Moon Charon. Kinda Hurts, Doesn't It? A Minor Body 7.5 Billion Kilometers Away Has A Big Moon, And You Still Don't Have A Girlfriend.
Jokes Apart, New Horizons Has Given Us Awesome Pictures Of Both.
Jokes Apart, New Horizons Has Given Us Awesome Pictures Of Both.
The Pluto-Charon System, Photographed By New Horizons
And I'm Not The Only Person Frickin' Exited, In Fact, Everyone Is. Just Think About. You're Looking At Pluto. The Body Nobody Had Ever Seen Before. The Body That May Tell Us How Life "Formed" And Landed Here On Earth. When People Ask Me About How I Feel When I Look At That HD Picture, I Reply "Mixed Feelings". The Excitement And Happiness Of FINAAALY Photographing It, The Thrill, The Awesomeness; And Also A Pinch Of Sadness When Thinking Of How Sir Tombaugh Could Never See It For What It Truly Is, And The Sense Of Peace Arises When One Learns That The Probe Carries His Ashes. So Many Years, So Many Dreams, Hopes, So Many People Lifes Entwined With It's. New Horizons And The Team Made History, And I'm Frickin' Excited To Be A Part Of History.
The Awesome New Horizons Team
It Gives Me Creeps, That Within A Few Decades, A Few Hundred Maybe, Our Grandchildren And Possibly Our Children Will Be Setting Foot On Some Other Planet, Or Minor Planet. We'll Be Long Dead, Forgotten, But The Human Race Will Be More Open, More Logical, Kind, Literally Universal. Heaven Is Not Somewhere You Go After You Die, It's A Place You Create. A Place Not For You, For Everyone. Maybe If People Were More Benevolent And Far Sighted, We'd Give A Brighter Future Future To Our Kids, And Teach Them To Work Harder To Give Their Kids Are More Luminous Future.
The Future Is Awesome.
The Future Is Awesome.
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