09 julho 2015
5 Million Miles from Pluto
An image snapped on July 7 by the New Horizons spacecraft while just under 5 million miles (8 million kilometers) from Pluto is combined with color data in this most detailed view yet of the Solar System's most famous world about to be explored. The region imaged includes the tip of an elongated dark area along Pluto's equator already dubbed "the whale". A bright heart-shaped region on the right is about 1,200 miles (2,000) kilometers across, possibly covered with a frost of frozen methane, nitrogen, and/or carbon monoxide. The view is centered near the area that will be seen during New Horizons much anticipated July 14 closest approach to a distance of about 7,750 miles (12,500 kilometers).
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I truly love the style of your images, they always look like from centuries ago, even the ones with planets and stars and universe stuff :>
thank you for this kind and fascinating comment.
i guess we think of the future when we think of space because of the technology that gets us there (or sends the pictures back).
but why shouldn’t pictures of the stars look old? they’re the oldest things we have pictures of! perhaps we should be recording our astronomy in charcoal and ochre, on the walls of the deepest caves, to remind us of that.
and i was thinking about the way that scientists have made use of records of supernovae written more than a thousand years ago.
maybe there should be a robotic observatory on a desert mountaintop somewhere, autonomous and solar powered. watching the stars every night and carving them by day with the point of a laser into a rock-face. so that in a thousand years, or ten thousand years, or a million years, those that come after us will have a complete map of the heavens as they looked to us.
thank you again.
regards,
b.
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