Click here to start voting on what the geography of Pluto and Charon should be called. Voting ends on the 24th so don't delay!
http://www.ourpluto.org/vote
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2015/0320-mapping-of-pluto-begins-today.html
QuoteThe Mapping of Pluto Begins Today
Posted by Mark Showalter
2015/03/20 17:12 UTC
Topics: trans-neptunian objects, New Horizons, Pluto, fun, Charon, Contests, dwarf planets beyond Neptune
Pluto is just 3.5 pixels across in the latest images from the New Horizons spacecraft. That's nine square pixels. You can't do much with nine pixels. You might be able to see crude patterns of light and dark, but you probably wouldn't call it a map. Still, it's a start.
In a few months, this will all change. Craters, mountains and other landforms will take shape before our eyes. When New Horizons flies past Pluto in July, we will see a new, alien landscape in stark detail. At that point, we will have a lot to talk about. The only way we can talk about it is if those features, whatever they turn out to be, have names.
Today we are beginning a campaign called "Our Pluto". The goal is to gather together the names that we will eventually use to label the maps of Pluto and its large moon, Charon. After discussions with the International Astronomical Union (IAU), we have defined a set of broad themes for these names, related to mythology, literature and history.
The New Horizons science team is doing something unprecedented. Naming campaigns have been held before, but on a different scale. Today, the entire landscapes of Pluto and Charon is open to the public. We have called the campaign "Our Pluto" because we think that everyone should have a say in the names we use on those strange and distant worlds. At ourpluto.seti.org (http://ourpluto.seti.org), you can vote for your favorite names, talk about them, and nominate names that we might have overlooked.
After the campaign ends, the New Horizons science team will select your best ideas and pitch them to the IAU. The IAU will have final say over the names on the maps of Pluto and Charon.
Let the conversation begin!
As I said, Tim the Human Clickbait.
QuoteTopics: trans-neptunian objects, New Horizons, Pluto, fun, Charon, Contests, dwarf planets beyond Neptune
Weird sex freaks make me sick.
Yeah, looks like tranny-chasing Disney character furries with a dwarf fetish.
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:x :x :x
Quote from: Martinus on April 17, 2015, 01:01:38 AM
As I said, Tim the Human Clickbait.
I really don't think "Tim the Human Clickbait" will get many votes.
Whee, that was fun.
I voted for Rama, Arthur Dent, Leif Ericson, and Baldr.
QuoteThank you for voting. Vote again tomorrow if you like.
:bleeding:
From what we know of Pluto, the whole thing should be Tartarus. No rivers and no Elysian Fields to be had.
Oh, I also voted for some Cthulhu thing. :cthulu:
[Ed]Cthulhu sucks.[/Ed]
I admit that I've been excited about the New Horizons missions ever since it launched.
First good, clear photos of Pluto... so cool.
Quote from: HisMajestyBOB on April 22, 2015, 07:54:18 AM
First good, clear photos of Pluto... so cool.
Agreed on that. :)
Aren't we pretty much expecting it to look like the Moon or Mercury though? Not that it's not neat to see Pluto in high definition, but it's not expected to look particularly interesting, is it?
Quote from: Caliga on April 22, 2015, 03:34:09 PM
Aren't we pretty much expecting it to look like the Moon or Mercury though? Not that it's not neat to see Pluto in high definition, but it's not expected to look particularly interesting, is it?
There should be a few differences. Pluto has a faint atmosphere, and the two objects are made of different materials.
Quote from: Caliga on April 22, 2015, 03:34:09 PM
Aren't we pretty much expecting it to look like the Moon or Mercury though? Not that it's not neat to see Pluto in high definition, but it's not expected to look particularly interesting, is it?
There could be liquid neon on the surface.
We could see ice volcanoes like on Enceladus.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on April 22, 2015, 04:54:11 PM
Quote from: Caliga on April 22, 2015, 03:34:09 PM
Aren't we pretty much expecting it to look like the Moon or Mercury though? Not that it's not neat to see Pluto in high definition, but it's not expected to look particularly interesting, is it?
There could be liquid neon on the surface.
We could see ice volcanoes like on Enceladus.
OK Roy.
Quote from: The Brain on April 23, 2015, 01:13:28 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on April 22, 2015, 04:54:11 PM
Quote from: Caliga on April 22, 2015, 03:34:09 PM
Aren't we pretty much expecting it to look like the Moon or Mercury though? Not that it's not neat to see Pluto in high definition, but it's not expected to look particularly interesting, is it?
There could be liquid neon on the surface.
We could see ice volcanoes like on Enceladus.
OK Roy.
Roy? :unsure:
Quote from: jimmy olsen on April 23, 2015, 04:57:51 PM
Quote from: The Brain on April 23, 2015, 01:13:28 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on April 22, 2015, 04:54:11 PM
Quote from: Caliga on April 22, 2015, 03:34:09 PM
Aren't we pretty much expecting it to look like the Moon or Mercury though? Not that it's not neat to see Pluto in high definition, but it's not expected to look particularly interesting, is it?
There could be liquid neon on the surface.
We could see ice volcanoes like on Enceladus.
OK Roy.
Roy? :unsure:
Jesus Christ.
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I think you're mistaken, Jesus was a Jewish man with a beard.
There may be aliens on Pluto.
:punk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aky9FFj4ybE
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 21, 2015, 06:33:59 PM
:punk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aky9FFj4ybE
What's the deal with the accent?
The site says voting has ended.
Hmm
Quote from: The Brain on June 22, 2015, 02:31:59 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 21, 2015, 06:33:59 PM
:punk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aky9FFj4ybE
What's the deal with the accent?
Dude's name is Erik Wernquist
He made an even more awesome video on exploration called
Wanderershttps://vimeo.com/108650530
Quote from: The Brain on June 22, 2015, 02:31:59 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 21, 2015, 06:33:59 PM
:punk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aky9FFj4ybE
What's the deal with the accent?
To me, he kinda sounds kinda like Connor MacCleod of the clan MacCleod
First color image!
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasas-new-horizons-probe-gives-us-our-first-look-person-n379781
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That's it?
One ball is bigger than the other.
Map sucks.
Quote from: Liep on June 23, 2015, 03:15:09 AM
That's it?
At this moment the probe is 25,141,855 km from Pluto, and the photos that were used to make the one were made millions of km further out.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 23, 2015, 04:12:59 AM
Quote from: Liep on June 23, 2015, 03:15:09 AM
That's it?
At this moment the probe is 25,141,855 km from Pluto, and the photos that were used to make the one were made millions of km further out.
So it has a decent camera, but a too trigger happy operator? :P
It's where they are building Sinistar.
Quote from: HisMajestyBOB on April 22, 2015, 07:54:18 AM
I admit that I've been excited about the New Horizons missions ever since it launched.
First good, clear photos of Pluto... so cool.
Agreed. :)
Worrisome to have this happen so close to the flyby :(
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/07042044-new-horizons-enters-safe-mode.html
QuoteNew Horizons enters safe mode 10 days before Pluto flyby
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla
2015/07/05 04:10 UTC
Topics: New Horizons, mission status
Welp. New Horizons decided to put on a little 4th of July drama for the mission's fans. It's currently in safe mode, and it will likely be a day or two before it recovers and returns to science, but it remains on course for the July 14 flyby. Here's the mission update in its entirety.
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New Horizons Team Responds to Spacecraft Anomaly
The New Horizons spacecraft experienced an anomaly the afternoon of July 4 that led to a loss of communication with Earth. Communication has since been reestablished and the spacecraft is healthy.
The mission operations center at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, lost contact with the unmanned spacecraft -- now 10 days from arrival at Pluto -- at 1:54 p.m. EDT, and regained communications with New Horizons at 3:15 p.m. EDT, through NASA's Deep Space Network.
During that time the autonomous autopilot on board the spacecraft recognized a problem and – as it's programmed to do in such a situation - switched from the main to the backup computer. The autopilot placed the spacecraft in "safe mode," and commanded the backup computer to reinitiate communication with Earth. New Horizons then began to transmit telemetry to help engineers diagnose the problem.
A New Horizons Anomaly Review Board (ARB) was convened at 4 p.m. EDT to gather information on the problem and initiate a recovery plan. The team is now working to return New Horizons to its original flight plan. Due to the 9-hour, round trip communication delay that results from operating a spacecraft almost 3 billion miles (4.9 billion kilometers) from Earth, full recovery is expected to take from one to several days; New Horizons will be temporarily unable to collect science data during that time.
Status updates will be issued as new information is available.
Okay. This is scary. It's not what the team wanted to be dealing with right now. However, the spacecraft is healthy. There was some brief confusion on Twitter over the phrase "return New Horizons to its original flight plan," but don't fear: the spacecraft is on course. Even if (heaven forbid) the spacecraft never recovered from safe mode, it would still fly past Pluto at the planned distance, speed, and time; no further trajectory correction maneuvers are planned from now until after the flyby. The "original plan" refers to the science plan.
So, if contact was lost at 1:54 p.m. EDT, what are we now missing? That is about 18:00 UT, and those signals left New Horizons about 4.5 hours previously, or 13:30 UT. I don't have detailed information on the science plans being performed now, but I do have a table of optical navigation images that were planned for this period.
The good news: no images were planned at all for July 4. There were a few planned for July 5, some of which will probably be missed. And only one planned for July 6. None of these is critical for navigation; images taken on days before and after will give the mission the information that they need to target future images precisely. Assuming they can get the spacecraft back into normal operating mode relatively fast, the only result of today's safe mode will be an annoying -- but educational -- gap in our approach animations, and a less educational (but not catastrophic) gap in our light curves for Nix and Hydra.
How long will it take? Well, two-way light time between New Horizons and Earth is nine hours. It sounds like they want more information from the spacecraft before determining the best course of action; they had to command that some time after they regained contact at 3:15 pm EDT / 19:15 UT, so they won't get the information until the wee hours of their morning. In the meantime, they'll probably have developed a list of possible explanations for the anomaly. If the further information that they get tomorrow morning matches one of their explanations, and it's a benign thing, they could conceivably return the spacecraft to science with a command sent later tomorrow morning ET -- leaving a science gap of slightly more than one day. If they still aren't sure they understand the spacecraft's condition, it could take at least one more nine-hour round of communication followed by another meeting, resulting in most of another day.
Safe modes are scary and annoying but not uncommon and not, at this moment, anything that New Horizons fans should be freaking out about. I'll willingly admit that I freaked out, just a little bit, when I first heard this news; but I have confidence that the team will handle it and will return the mission to normal operations with no serious loss to science.
I'll post an update when I have any news to report, but with that nine-hour delay, it's going to be a while.
About naming the geography, i say as long as we stay with western centric names we are good.
No Yerushalayim. :(
:w00t:
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Booooring...
Map sucks.
Is that a heart in the bottom right?
The red planet?
It's not a planet!
Pretty cool! Finally photos of Pluto! It's kind of a brown color; I was expecting something more gray and rocky. :hmm:
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I wonder how soon until they image the Charon Relay. :area52:
Quote from: KRonn on July 09, 2015, 08:22:12 AM
Pretty cool! Finally photos of Pluto! It's kind of a brown color; I was expecting something more gray and rocky. :hmm:
Indeed, I keep thinking NASA are adding a sepia filter to it, and that it's actually grey.
It was discovered in 1930. What do you expect?
Three million miles out and closing! :menace:
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Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 10, 2015, 12:43:04 AM
Three million miles out and closing! :menace:
This is cool. Pretty good pics for so far away. :)
Though not yet close enough to show any cities and such... ;)
1 million kilometres out, time to get excited!
I saw a pic of mission control right when a batch of photos was coming in, and this one scientist dude looked like he was screaming "DROPPING LOADS!!!" he was so excited. :lol:
I read that the closest photos will be taken tomorrow (Tuesday) and it'll be"Wednesday before the closest of Pluto's close-ups are available for release. And it will be well into next year — October 2016 — before all the anticipated data are transmitted to Earth."
So it's going to take time for photos and data to be received and released, including photos/data of some of Pluto's moons. Cool stuff though. :cool:
While I don't have that much of a hard-on for space exploration, I realise this is about as much I will get to see of space in my lifetime.
Which is sort of disappointing, as my parents at least got to see a moon landing.
Needs more Nazi scientists, this.
The NASA stream went full on patriotic at closest approach. Then they played Europe - Final Countdown. Then the obligatory USA! USA! chant.
It was beautiful. :weep:
Quote from: Liep on July 14, 2015, 06:51:40 AM
The NASA stream went full on patriotic at closest approach. Then they played Europe - Final Countdown. Then the obligatory USA! USA! chant.
It was beautiful. :weep:
:lol:
Beautiful :cry:
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Amurica :cry:
Boring
Quote from: Ed Anger on July 14, 2015, 08:34:56 AM
Boring
What were you expecting? It's just a chunk of rock in space. You'd have to be a hardcore scientist or a gigantic nerd to get truly excited by a photo of Pluto.
Quote from: Caliga on July 14, 2015, 08:37:39 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on July 14, 2015, 08:34:56 AM
Boring
What were you expecting? It's just a chunk of rock in space. You'd have to be a hardcore scientist or a gigantic nerd to get truly excited by a photo of Pluto.
Thanks for stepping on my bait. Ass.
Quote from: Ed Anger on July 14, 2015, 08:42:22 AM
Thanks for stepping on my bait. Ass.
Foiled again, Colonel Klink! :menace:
I remember when Pluto was a planet. :cry:
I remember when it was Mickey Mouse's dog.
Quote from: Norgy on July 14, 2015, 09:42:12 AM
I remember when it was Mickey Mouse's dog.
Still is. :)
So let's start colonizing Pluto now that we know what it looks like!! Orbits the sun every 248 years, so I guess that makes for long summers and long winters..... ;)
"How old are you?"
"Two hours"
"Oh, poor old thing"
Quote from: Norgy on July 14, 2015, 09:42:12 AM
I remember when it was Mickey Mouse's dog.
pluto always weirded me out. All the other animals could talk and think, except Pluto. Was he retarded? Did Mickey keep his slow friend and treat him like a pet?
Pluto would fit in perfectly in Languish LOL
Quote from: KRonn on July 14, 2015, 10:02:17 AM
So let's start colonizing Pluto now that we know what it looks like!! Orbits the sun every 248 years, so I guess that makes for long summers and long winters..... ;)
I am going to hit you for that.
Quote from: HVC on July 14, 2015, 10:47:50 AM
Quote from: Norgy on July 14, 2015, 09:42:12 AM
I remember when it was Mickey Mouse's dog.
pluto always weirded me out. All the other animals could talk and think, except Pluto. Was he retarded? Did Mickey keep his slow friend and treat him like a pet?
Pluto was a pet, I accepted that. The rest were... uh, not.
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Quote from: Razgovory on July 14, 2015, 11:38:14 AM
Quote from: KRonn on July 14, 2015, 10:02:17 AM
So let's start colonizing Pluto now that we know what it looks like!! Orbits the sun every 248 years, so I guess that makes for long summers and long winters..... ;)
I am going to hit you for that.
:D
Quote from: Caliga on July 14, 2015, 08:47:05 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on July 14, 2015, 08:42:22 AM
Thanks for stepping on my bait. Ass.
Foiled again, Colonel Klink! :menace:
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There are signs of: Snow. :uffda:
Winter has already come for Pluto. We should return for the Long Summer.
Depends on the density of White Walkers, I'd say. Didn't one of them, Scott, launch his bid for POTUS today?
Quote from: Josephus on July 14, 2015, 11:58:20 AM
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:lol:
Quote from: Norgy on July 14, 2015, 11:44:06 AM
Quote from: HVC on July 14, 2015, 10:47:50 AM
Quote from: Norgy on July 14, 2015, 09:42:12 AM
I remember when it was Mickey Mouse's dog.
pluto always weirded me out. All the other animals could talk and think, except Pluto. Was he retarded? Did Mickey keep his slow friend and treat him like a pet?
Pluto was a pet, I accepted that. The rest were... uh, not.
Donald Duck kept Clarabelle Cow leashed in his basement where he
milked her.
Quote from: Razgovory on July 14, 2015, 03:14:57 PM
Quote from: Norgy on July 14, 2015, 11:44:06 AM
Quote from: HVC on July 14, 2015, 10:47:50 AM
Quote from: Norgy on July 14, 2015, 09:42:12 AM
I remember when it was Mickey Mouse's dog.
pluto always weirded me out. All the other animals could talk and think, except Pluto. Was he retarded? Did Mickey keep his slow friend and treat him like a pet?
Pluto was a pet, I accepted that. The rest were... uh, not.
Donald Duck kept Clarabelle Cow leashed in his basement where he milked her.
One suspects that, somewhere on the Internet, there would be porn based on that.
Quote from: Malthus on July 14, 2015, 03:21:27 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 14, 2015, 03:14:57 PM
Quote from: Norgy on July 14, 2015, 11:44:06 AM
Quote from: HVC on July 14, 2015, 10:47:50 AM
Quote from: Norgy on July 14, 2015, 09:42:12 AM
I remember when it was Mickey Mouse's dog.
pluto always weirded me out. All the other animals could talk and think, except Pluto. Was he retarded? Did Mickey keep his slow friend and treat him like a pet?
Pluto was a pet, I accepted that. The rest were... uh, not.
Donald Duck kept Clarabelle Cow leashed in his basement where he milked her.
One suspects that, somewhere on the Internet, there would be porn based on that.
Will you check that for us, Malthus?
Quote from: Norgy on July 14, 2015, 10:39:34 AM
"How old are you?"
"Two hours"
"Oh, poor old thing"
Pluto has a 6 day rotation, so two hours there wouldn't be that long.
Quote from: citizen k on July 14, 2015, 04:09:25 PM
Quote from: Malthus on July 14, 2015, 03:21:27 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 14, 2015, 03:14:57 PM
Quote from: Norgy on July 14, 2015, 11:44:06 AM
Quote from: HVC on July 14, 2015, 10:47:50 AM
Quote from: Norgy on July 14, 2015, 09:42:12 AM
I remember when it was Mickey Mouse's dog.
pluto always weirded me out. All the other animals could talk and think, except Pluto. Was he retarded? Did Mickey keep his slow friend and treat him like a pet?
Pluto was a pet, I accepted that. The rest were... uh, not.
Donald Duck kept Clarabelle Cow leashed in his basement where he milked her.
One suspects that, somewhere on the Internet, there would be porn based on that.
Will you check that for us, Malthus?
He'll get back to you after his, uhm, lunch break.
Quote from: citizen k on July 14, 2015, 04:09:25 PM
Quote from: Malthus on July 14, 2015, 03:21:27 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 14, 2015, 03:14:57 PM
Donald Duck kept Clarabelle Cow leashed in his basement where he milked her.
One suspects that, somewhere on the Internet, there would be porn based on that.
Will you check that for us, Malthus?
Just what I always wanted in my browser history. :D
Quote from: Malthus on July 14, 2015, 05:02:55 PM
Quote from: citizen k on July 14, 2015, 04:09:25 PM
Quote from: Malthus on July 14, 2015, 03:21:27 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 14, 2015, 03:14:57 PM
Donald Duck kept Clarabelle Cow leashed in his basement where he milked her.
One suspects that, somewhere on the Internet, there would be porn based on that.
Will you check that for us, Malthus?
Just what I always wanted in my browser history. :D
:secret:Incognito
And in other space news, it seems like Uranus might be full of surprises! (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2014/11/14/uranus-might-be-full-of-surprises/) :w00t:
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Quote from: HVC on July 14, 2015, 10:47:50 AM
pluto always weirded me out. All the other animals could talk and think, except Pluto. Was he retarded? Did Mickey keep his slow friend and treat him like a pet?
They also could stand on their hind legs. And wore (some) clothes.
The Ducks don't believe in pants, though (although Scrooge occasionally wears a kilt). They like to swing free, I guess. And Minnie Mouse's short dress often flashed her frilly panties.
Donald Duck is one of my favourite anti-heroes ever.
Mickey Mouse was just too sensible.
Never really liked Mickey, or Goofy for that matter. Always loved everything Duck related, esp. Scrooge McDuck.
Quote from: Syt on July 15, 2015, 06:53:47 AM
Never really liked Mickey, or Goofy for that matter. Always loved everything Duck related, esp. Scrooge McDuck.
I liked the Goofy movie, especially the scene with the Michael Jackson knockoff.
I will admit I like the old Sports Goofy cartoons, and the ones where he tries to do something following an instruction booklet/radio show.
Quote from: Syt on July 15, 2015, 06:53:47 AM
Never really liked Mickey, or Goofy for that matter. Always loved everything Duck related, esp. Scrooge McDuck.
The old Carl Barks story cartoons were brilliant in their simplicity and story-telling.
I think they're responsible for numerous Norwegians' ability to read and interest in history.
The first Donald Duck weekly I have that survived is from 1975, two years after I was born. My parents were attentive to reading aloud to me, and I loved just looking at the drawings. One of the best Christmas gifts ever was the huge "Me, Donald Duck" book with most of the really good Carl Barks stories.
Thank you, America, for that piece of cultural imperialism.
Carl Barks was great, but I was surprised to hear that a lot of stories that became popular in Germany from the 60s through 80s in the "Lustiges Taschenbuch" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Duck_pocket_books) series (usually ca. 200 pages pocket books) were penned in Italy.
Quote from: Syt on July 15, 2015, 09:16:08 AM
Carl Barks was great, but I was surprised to hear that a lot of stories that became popular in Germany from the 60s through 80s in the "Lustiges Taschenbuch" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Duck_pocket_books) series (usually ca. 200 pages pocket books) were penned in Italy.
Same ones we got here. Our Mickey/Donald books were a compilation of Italian and American stories, with a few locally produced ones.
Quote from: Syt on July 15, 2015, 09:16:08 AM
Carl Barks was great, but I was surprised to hear that a lot of stories that became popular in Germany from the 60s through 80s in the "Lustiges Taschenbuch" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Duck_pocket_books) series (usually ca. 200 pages pocket books) were penned in Italy.
They were immensely popular here too. I think well over 250 of them were publised.
When Barks got older, Italian cartoonists took over.
The later ones had excellent colour drawings (from the mid- to late 80s).
Remember the Barks story with the four-cornered eggs? That caused a fuss here. We have three official languages, but this was published when nynorsk and bokmål were the only two. The natives spoke: nynorsk. Scandal!!!!
Quote from: Norgy on July 15, 2015, 09:56:11 AM
Quote from: Syt on July 15, 2015, 09:16:08 AM
Carl Barks was great, but I was surprised to hear that a lot of stories that became popular in Germany from the 60s through 80s in the "Lustiges Taschenbuch" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Duck_pocket_books) series (usually ca. 200 pages pocket books) were penned in Italy.
They were immensely popular here too. I think well over 250 of them were publised.
When Barks got older, Italian cartoonists took over.
The later ones had excellent colour drawings (from the mid- to late 80s).
Remember the Barks story with the four-cornered eggs? That caused a fuss here. We have three official languages, but this was published when nynorsk and bokmål were the only two. The natives spoke: nynorsk. Scandal!!!!
:D
Poor pluto
Lol, I don't know if I've ever seen eyes bug out that much in real life! :lmfao:
https://twitter.com/jonkeegan/status/621372702276874242/photo/1
The surface is less than a hundred million years old!? How? :blink:
Mountains the size of the Alps made of H2O, what the ...?
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/new-horizons-photos-reveal-pluto-ice-mountains-charon-crater-n392691
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New Horizons Photos Show Pluto's Ice Mountains and Charon's Huge Crater
by Alan Boyle and Devin Coldewey
LAUREL, Md. — The first pictures sent back by NASA's New Horizons probe after this week's unprecedented Pluto flyby reveal towering mountains made of frozen water — and a giant dark impact basin on top of its biggest moon, Charon.
The scientists who are leading the team say even they are flummoxed by the images from an icy, alien realm on the edge of the solar system, 3 billion miles (5 billion kilometers) away.
"Who'd have supposed that there are ice mountains?" Johns Hopkins University's Hal Weaver, project scientist for the New Horizons mission, said Wednesday during a news briefing here at JHU's Applied Physics Laboratory.
Principal investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute called the findings "balloon-busting."
The images were received overnight and analyzed by the science team at the Applied Physics Laboratory, just hours after the piano-sized New Horizons spacecraft sped past Pluto and its moons at more than 30,000 miles (50,000 kilometers) per hour. The probe came within 7,750 miles (12,500 kilometers) of Pluto's surface, snapping pictures and taking data throughout the encounter. Mission managers said the spacecraft was in good health, and loaded up with so much data that it will take 16 months to download it all.
This first delivery was an auspicious one: The Pluto image showed a small region near the southern end of the dwarf planet's bright, heart-shaped region in 10 times greater detail than previously available. John Spencer, a member of the New Horizons team from the Southwest Research Institute, said the "heart" has been informally named Tombaugh Regio — after Clyde Tombaugh, the American astronomer who discovered Pluto in 1930.
The image showed jagged mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) from the surrounding terrain. Even though Pluto is covered with frozen nitrogen and methane, those substances aren't strong enough to build mountains that high, Stern said.
"The bedrock that makes those mountains must be made of H2O, water ice," Stern said. "We see water ice on Pluto for the first time. We can be very sure that the water is there in great abundance."
What's more, the mountainous terrain shown in the image must have been created no more than 100 million years ago — otherwise it would show evidence of more impacts, scientists said. "This is one of the youngest surfaces we've ever seen in the solar system," Jeff Moore, a member of New Horizons' geology, geophysics and imaging team, said in a NASA news release.
The mission's scientists don't know what process created the mountains, but they're sure it's not tidal heating — which drives geological activity on, say, Jupiter's moon Europa. They speculated that radioactive elements embedded in Pluto's mix of rock and ice may be generating enough heat to make Pluto geologically active. "This may cause us to rethink what powers geological activity on many other icy worlds," Spencer said.
The New Horizons team can't yet say whether Pluto has a subsurface reservoir of liquid water — but the results revealed Wednesday certainly don't rule that out.
Nine and a half years after its launch, New Horizons is providing the first detailed look at a world on the solar system's farthest frontier. Before the mission, the best pictures of Pluto were fuzzy images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Now the world is getting to know Pluto and its moons as worlds unlike any other.
Another image released Wednesday shows Pluto's moon, Charon, in unprecedented detail. "Charon just blew our socks off," said the mission's deputy project scientist, Cathy Olkin of the Southwest Research Institute.
Olkin said Charon's north pole is dominated by a gigantic impact basin, which has been nicknamed Mordor to pay tribute to the dark land in J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. The picture also shows linear features and troughs circling Charon's surface — including a canyon that's 4 to 6 miles (7 to 10 kilometers) deep.
The image doesn't show as many craters as scientists expected, which suggests that the surface is geologically young and still active, Olkin said.
Another newly released image shows Hydra, one of Pluto's small, irregularly shaped moons. Hydra was discovered in 2005 during the preparations for New Horizons' launch, and the highly pixelated view seen Wednesday's picture is by far the best view ever captured.
Scientists said Hydra is about 27 miles by 20 miles (43 by 33 kilometers), and they were able to determine its composition by analyzing its brightness, mass and dimensions.
"Hydra's surface is probably composed primarily of water ice, and that's cool," Weaver said.
The images unveiled on Wednesday are only the start. Even though New Horizons is now speeding away from Pluto and its moons at tens of thousands of miles per hour, it has saved up billions of bytes worth of data on its solid-state recorders, and will continue to send the signals back at a rate of 1,000 to 2,000 bytes per second — from a distance so vast that it takes 4.5 hours to reach Earth at the speed of light.
After all those pictures and data are sent back, the $728 million New Horizons mission could be extended to accommodate another flyby past an even more distant object in the Kuiper Belt, the region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. But for now, Stern and his colleagues are enjoying the first flush of discovery.
"I don't think anyone of us could have imagined it would be this good of a toy store," Stern said.
"This is what we came for," Will Grundy, a member of the science team from Lowell Observatory, said in reply.
"This exceeds what we came for," Olkin added.
Photo of Pluto fed through the "deep dream" app = Azathoth?
https://dreamscopeapp.com/i/g7yNCYicRr
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 16, 2015, 06:21:11 AM
The surface is less than a hundred million years old!? How? :blink:
Mountains the size of the Alps made of H2O, what the ...?
Yeah, amazing you nerds didn't have every detail ironed out before this.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 16, 2015, 06:21:11 AM
The surface is less than a hundred million years old!? How? :blink:
Mountains the size of the Alps made of H2O, what the ...?
My completely amateur, pulled-out-of-my-ass theory? Perhaps more evidence that Pluto is a lost comet/comet-rock mix from the Oort cloud (and thus possibly proof that it shouldn't be a "planet" :P )?
Quote from: Tonitrus on July 16, 2015, 07:40:51 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 16, 2015, 06:21:11 AM
The surface is less than a hundred million years old!? How? :blink:
Mountains the size of the Alps made of H2O, what the ...?
My completely amateur, pulled-out-of-my-ass theory? Perhaps more evidence that Pluto is a lost comet/comet-rock mix from the Oort cloud (and thus possibly proof that it shouldn't be a "planet" :P )?
That's not the problem however. If the surface is young, that means that there are active geological processes at work on Pluto. However, that requires a tremendous amount of heat. A planet the size of Venus or Earth has enough mass that the interior is heated by the pressure exerted on the interior. Pluto is much too small for that to be the case.
The large moons of Jupiter are geologically active because the tug of war between Jupiter and the other large satellites stretches and squeezes them, heating up their interior. Pluto and Charon are tidally locked, so they are not exerting that kind of pressure on each other.
So where is the heat coming from?
QuoteSo where is the heat coming from?
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FyEbscSL.jpg&hash=5d38e832bfd6e66346e6c85bd79537487e6441bb)
But seriously...they based their age estimation on evidence of surface impact. Maybe there is just far less shit to impact with it way out there in the outer solar system?
Quote from: Tonitrus on July 16, 2015, 08:04:00 PM
QuoteSo where is the heat coming from?
QuoteALIENS
But seriously...they based their age estimation on evidence of surface impact. Maybe there is just far less shit to impact with it way out there in the outer solar system?
Everything we know about the solar system says there should be more out there.
How plutonium got us to Pluto. Plus the guy just looks like science
http://youtu.be/498pOIm8Qbc
Quote from: Tonitrus on July 16, 2015, 08:04:00 PM
But seriously...they based their age estimation on evidence of surface impact. Maybe there is just far less shit to impact with it way out there in the outer solar system?
Pluto being very small, it would also attract much few projectiles than, say, Jupiter or Neptune.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 16, 2015, 07:47:41 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on July 16, 2015, 07:40:51 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 16, 2015, 06:21:11 AM
The surface is less than a hundred million years old!? How? :blink:
Mountains the size of the Alps made of H2O, what the ...?
My completely amateur, pulled-out-of-my-ass theory? Perhaps more evidence that Pluto is a lost comet/comet-rock mix from the Oort cloud (and thus possibly proof that it shouldn't be a "planet" :P )?
That's not the problem however. If the surface is young, that means that there are active geological processes at work on Pluto. However, that requires a tremendous amount of heat. A planet the size of Venus or Earth has enough mass that the interior is heated by the pressure exerted on the interior. Pluto is much too small for that to be the case.
The large moons of Jupiter are geologically active because the tug of war between Jupiter and the other large satellites stretches and squeezes them, heating up their interior. Pluto and Charon are tidally locked, so they are not exerting that kind of pressure on each other.
So where is the heat coming from?
Pluto could have been a moon 100 million years ago that got bored and went off on it's own.
So, in the bottom left would be the Mountains of Madness? Or R'lyeh? :unsure:
(https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nh_04_mckinnon_03c.jpg)
Hillary isn't even POTUS yet.
Quote from: The Brain on July 26, 2015, 06:52:12 AM
Hillary isn't even POTUS yet.
But would you explore her mons?
A bunch of awesome stuff on Pluto has been coming out recently
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/1110/Does-Pluto-have-volcanoes-If-so-how-did-it-get-them-video
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Does Pluto have volcanoes? If so, how did it get them? (+video)
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has spotted a pair of peaks that might be volcanoes, suggesting that Pluto may have an internal heat source.
By Nola Taylor Redd, SPACE.com November 10, 2015
National Harbor, Md. — Icy volcanoes may lie on the southern rim of Pluto's frozen heart.
Images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft have identified two peaks that tower nearly 4 miles (6 kilometers) high over the surface of the dwarf planet, and scientists say the peaks' physical features suggest they might be volcanoes.
"These are two really extraordinary features," Oliver White, a New Horizons postdoctoral researcher with NASA's Ames Research Center in California, said today (Nov. 9) during a news conference here at the 47th annual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). "Nothing like this has ever been seen in the solar system," he said.
A tiny, icy world at the edge of the solar system, Pluto remained largely invisible to scientists until July 2015, when the New Horizons space probe flew past it, giving humanity its first good look at the dwarf planet's surface. Before the New Horizons flyby, most scientists thought Pluto would prove to be too small to maintain the internal heat needed to power geological processes such as glacier flows and volcanism, according to scientists at the news conference. But the fast-moving spacecraft revealed a far younger surface than scientists had expected, suggesting that geological processes are taking place on Pluto, and that something must be keeping things warm beneath the surface.
Two enormous mountains, spanning hundreds of miles across, sit at the southern edge of the heart-shaped region on the surface of Pluto. The mountains have been informally named Wright Mons and Picard Mons, and at their crests, each peak hosts a central crater, reminiscent of peaks called "shield volcanoes" on Earth.
"Whatever they are, they're definitely weird" — 'volcanoes' is the least weird hypothesis at the moment," White said at the news conference.
Although the features bear a strong similarity to volcanoes, New Horizons researcher Jeff Moore, of NASA Ames Research Field, said in an earlier session that they were not yet ready to conclusively pronounce that there is evidence for cryovolcanism on Pluto.
"These look suspicious, and we're looking very closely," Moore said.
Scientists don't yet know what could be generating the heat inside Pluto necessary to create a volcano on the surface. One possibility, also presented at the conference, is that an ammonia-water slurry mantle lies beneath the surface, according to a statement from AAS. The research, performed by graduate student Alex Trowbridge and professor Jay Melosh, of Purdue University in Indiana, suggests that, as cooler material sinks through the subsurface layers, hot material might rise, leading to geological activity that could include cryovolcanism.
Another possibility, which White focused on, has to do with a gradually cooling rocky core, originally heated during the dwarf planet's formation. The heat required to melt ices would be significantly lower than those required to release rock, allowing the gradual mobilization of material that could, in theory, erupt through a volcano.
"While there's maybe less heat to go around, perhaps you get more bang for your buck," White said.
The first of their kind
Though the term "cryovolcanism" has been applied to other objects in the solar system, White stressed that the features on Pluto are unique. Saturn's frozen moon Enceladus is known for spewing material from its southern pole, but the source comes from fissures in the ground rather than mountainous features. And while cryovolcanism has been hypothesized to exist on Titan, another Saturn moon, White pointed out that those cryovolcanoes were identified by radar and are still under debate. Pluto's features, by contrast, are clearly visible and bear stark similarities to Earth's volcanoes.
"This is the first time where we see what seem to be tall volcanic edifices," White said.
The two slopes are lightly cratered, White told Space.com, which suggests that they are younger than the northern terrains of Pluto, though not nearly as young as the "heart" of Pluto, Sputnik Planum. Scientists aren't certain of the mountains' composition, though White suggested it could be nitrogen ice. The thin atmosphere would likely allow for the fluidization of the material across the surface.
The two mountains lay along the day-night line of Pluto when they were imaged by New Horizons. Picard Mons, the larger of the two features, lies in the twilight region, so it may not be possible to understand its composition with current data. But White expressed hope that upcoming data may reveal secrets about the composition of the more brightly lit Wright Mons.
Even more exciting is the possibility that the two might be part of a larger field of volcanoes. White said that the close proximity of the two features might indicate that even more cryovolcanoes exist beyond the spacecraft's field of view. However, there is no way to spot them using data from the New Horizons flyby.
"We'll have to go back in a hundred years and see," White said.
Neat!
http://news.discovery.com/space/pluto-may-have-nitrogen-lakes-that-freeze-and-thaw-160328.htm
QuoteData collected by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft shows that tiny, distant Pluto not only likely has an ocean beneath its frozen face, but also may have had lakes on its surface in the recent past and likely will have them again in the future.
Even on its warmest days, Pluto is far too cold for surface lakes made of water, but they could contain liquid nitrogen during periods of time when the planet's atmosphere bulks up.
Pluto, which takes 248 years to circle the sun, turns out to have large swaths of real estate with direct overhead sunlight due to an extreme axial tilt of 120 degrees, relative to its orbital plane. Earth, by comparison, is tilted 23 degrees.
That gives Pluto a much broader range of tropical latitudes than Earth, noted New Horizons scientist Richard Binzel, with Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Because arctic and tropical zones alternatively extend over such wide swaths of the dwarf planet's surface, Pluto has regions where both extremes occur, though not at the same time.
Pluto also has a wobble, which causes its axis to tilt up an additional 20 degrees from its present orientation, triggering long-term climate cycles that far exceed anything experienced on Earth, Binzel said.
Pluto is now in an intermediate phase between its climate extremes, with the last peak occurring less than 1 million years ago. Temperatures today measure about minus-400 degrees Fahrenheit.
Variations in the amount of sunlight falling on Pluto have direct impacts on Pluto's atmosphere, noted New Horizon's lead scientist Alan Stern, with the Southwest Research Institute.
"We find that Pluto's atmospheric pressure today is atypically low and that in the past it could have been 1,000 to 10,000 times higher," exceeding the pressure of Mars by up to 40 times, Stern said.
Computer models show that when Pluto's temperature and atmospheric pressure are high, conditions could be suitable for liquid nitrogen.
ANALYSIS: Pluto Moon Charon 'Bursting' With Frozen Ocean?
Additional evidence comes from New Horizons itself. High-resolution images taken during the July 14 flyby reveal features that look like they could have been carved by liquids. The pictures also show what appears to be a frozen lake, measuring about 20 miles across at its widest point, that is located just north of Sputnik Planum, the western lobe of Pluto's smooth, heart-shaped region.
"Pluto is so dynamic that different cases may apply in different epics," Stern said. "We found this little planet where everything is coupled together."
The research was unveiled at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference last week in Texas and has been submitted for publication in the journal Icarus.
Quote from: The Brain on July 26, 2015, 06:52:12 AM
Hillary isn't even POTUS yet.
Neither is Cthulhu.
But not for lack of the Republican Party trying, apparently. :D
Quote from: Malthus on March 29, 2016, 01:25:25 PM
Quote from: The Brain on July 26, 2015, 06:52:12 AM
Hillary isn't even POTUS yet.
Neither is Cthulhu.
But not for lack of the Republican Party trying, apparently. :D
(https://ac2012.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/cthulhu.jpg)
Brian May made a New Horizons song in honor of the probes flyby of Ultima Thule. We should be getting confirmation of success or failure in a few hours.
:punk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Jm5POCAj8
Quote from: jimmy olsen on January 01, 2019, 08:36:48 AM
Brian May made a New Horizons song in honor of the probes flyby of Ultima Thule. We should be getting confirmation of success or failure in a few hours.
:punk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Jm5POCAj8
Tim, good to see you back on form. :cheers:
I was just going to post about the fly-by before you posted.
(https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/320/cpsprodpb/9FB3/production/_105038804_titled-624-nc.png)
:cool:
Full article here:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46742298 (https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46742298)
Tinge! It has a tinge! :w00t:
A billion miles past Pluto and all I got was this snow man.
FYI, a guy at NASA on NPR was pronouncing it Ultima Tooly.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on January 01, 2019, 08:36:48 AM
Brian May made a New Horizons song in honor of the probes flyby of Ultima Thule. We should be getting confirmation of success or failure in a few hours.
:punk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Jm5POCAj8
It's no Bohemian Rhapsody.