Sunday, September 13, 2015

Meeker

"I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it" ~ William Shakespeare ~ #rmnp

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Friday, September 11, 2015

Hiking in the Clouds

New Photos of Pluto Show a World More Complex and Beautiful Than Ever

Tuesday, September 08, 2015

Tuesday, September 01, 2015

Pluto Enhanced

Pluto in Enhanced Color
Image Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ./APL, Southwest Research Inst.
Explanation: Pluto is more colorful than we can see. Color data and images of our Solar System's most famous dwarf planet, taken by the robotic New Horizons spacecraft during its flyby in July, have been digitally combined to give an enhanced view of this ancient world sporting an unexpectedly young surface. The featured enhanced color image is not only esthetically pretty but scientifically useful, making surface regions of differing chemical composition visually distinct. For example, the light-colored heart-shaped Tombaugh Regio on the lower right is clearly shown here to be divisible into two regions that are geologically different, with the leftmost lobe Sputnik Planum also appearing unusually smooth. New Horizons now continues on beyond Pluto, will continue to beam back more images and data, and will soon be directed to change course so that it can fly past asteroid 2014 MU69 in 2019 January.
Pluto Images with Brief Explanations: APOD Pluto Search