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That’s some funky looking surface terrain.
And then::
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Holy crap. That is a fine, fine picture. Height exaggerated by the low-angle light, but still.
More of this (and less of the anti-science ravings of the Fright-Wing™) please.
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I loved that show as a kid. Pretty edgy for the time… a divorcee hero… shocking!
You get that with low-gravity planetoids.
Pluto just had its first visitor! Thanks @NASA - it's a great day for discovery and American leadership. pic.twitter.com/FfztBSMbK0
— President Obama (@POTUS) July 15, 2015
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Mother Jones (David Corn) had a wonderful assessment of the importance of these explorations to the United States. The excitement of these scientists is palpable - and as the parent of a geeky, aerospace engineering student, I hope that translates to a strong job market within NASA-related industries!
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Just amazing when you consider the level of precision work that made this possible.
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A large, barren, dark forbidding-looking region on Charon [1], Pluto’s largish moon has been tentatively named “Mordor”. I like the J.R.R. Tolkien reference, but perhaps, “Texas” would have been better.
[1] My classicist daughter and I think that Charon should have been named “Proserpine” [i.e., Romanization of Persephone] after Pluto’s significant other.
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Yes, but she was his main squeeze for only six months out of the year.
During the spring and summer months, she was above ground with her mother Demeter (Ceres in the Roman mythology).
And Charon manned the ferry carrying dead souls to Hades, so I think the name might still be apt.
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Why? I’ve been seeing these pictures all over Yahoo. But what I don’t see enough of is people covering what Republicans are doing and saying. They’re like cockroaches who want us to ignore them, so they can speak directly to their base. Twenty years ago, Trump could have said his racist rants to his adoring fans and few others would have known anything about it. The more we can shine a light on these creeps, the better.
Leave the science stuff for science websites. I come here for politics. I don’t mind the occasional story like this, but would prefer that they not make it a habit. Besides, hearing Republicans expose their ignorance is one of my favorite things to read and the main reason I come here. And when I want this sort of thing plus policy analysis, I read Steve Benen over at Maddow’s blog. And when I want to read science stuff, I go to science websites or just pick it up from Yahoo’s homepage. The fact that different websites focus on different subjects is a good thing.
If there was a confederarte flag there you can bet folks would be shitting bricks right now.
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We’re supposed to get some pictures with 50x better resolution over the next several months.
We’d have to rename Hydra, Nix, Styx, and Kerberos after Pluto’s mistresses.
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You misunderstand… I was referring to more NASA programs like this. Less policy pandering to anti-science fuck-sticks.
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If they don’t name the heart shaped feature Proserpine, I’m going to be very disappointed.
Though truth to tell, that’s one of the many Greek myths that’s kind of rapey.
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Been looking forward to this for a year and a half and watching the raw images from the Lorri camera for two weeks now.
You could tell Pluto was going to be a treat once New Horizons arrived just from those maddening, tantalizing Hubble images. Finally getting a decent look at Charon was especially gratifying.
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A lot of them are rapey – Leto and the swan, Europa, Zeus’s and Apollo’s many conquests …