| Online: | |
| Visits: | |
| Stories: |
| Story Views | |
| Now: | |
| Last Hour: | |
| Last 24 Hours: | |
| Total: | |
Pluto’s ‘Heart’ Revealed as New Horizons Probe Starts Flyby Campaign: 5 Days Out
The Huge Heart of Pluto
Pluto’s “Heart” is seen in this new image from New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) received on July 8, 2015 after normal science operations resumed following the scary July 4 safe mode anomaly that briefing shut down all science operations. The LORRI image has been combined with lower-resolution color information from the Ralph instrument. Credits: NASA-JHUAPL-SWRI
Emotions are rising exponentially with the rousing revelation that Pluto has a huge ‘Heart’ as revealed in new imagery received just today (July 8) from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft – which has also officially started its intensive flyby campaign merely 5 days out from humanity’s history making first encounter with the last planet in our Solar System on Tuesday, July 14.
Notably, today’s image showing Pluto’s ‘heart-shaped’ surface feature proves that New Horizons is now fully back in business following the nail-biting July 4 weekend anomaly that unexpectedly sent the probe into (…)
Read the rest of Pluto’s ‘Heart’ Revealed as New Horizons Probe Starts Flyby Campaign: 5 Days Out (669 words)
© Ken Kremer for Universe Today, 2015. | Permalink | No comment |
Post tags: binary planet, Charon, long range reconnaissance imager, lorri, NASA, New Horizons, New Horizons Pluto, Pluto, pluto charon, pluto flyby, Pluto’s Heart, The Whale and Heart on Pluto
Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh
Source: http://www.universetoday.com/121263/plutos-heart-revealed-as-new-horizons-probe-starts-flyby-campaign-5-days-out/
