New Horizons Pluto probe nearing its target

[Channel Hopper]

Image of Charon

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33502944

Nothing more likely until Wednesday evening, fingers crossed

 

[dig deep]

Hope the GPS is working

 

[Terryl]

I put out some old yard sale signs, all it has to do is turn left at the last one, it will miss the planet by a few miles.

 

[Channel Hopper]

First images are due early Wednesday morning, the remainder will trickle in over the next few months (that is if the probe doesn't catch a wayward yard sale sign on its way through the system).

 

[Channel Hopper]

An indication of just how fast this flyby is.

 

[Channel Hopper]

And if all goes to plan tomorrow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons#Future_mission_objectives

 

[Terryl]

JPL has an app for this, not a bad one at that.

http://eyes.jpl.nasa.gov/eyes-on-pluto.html

 

[Channel Hopper]

JPL has an app for this, not a bad one at that.

http://eyes.jpl.nasa.gov/eyes-on-pluto.html

What is an 'app' ?

edit - 26.6 MB ? what size of floppy is that ?

 

[Channel Hopper]

And a new dimension

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33513905

 

[Terryl]

App= Application.

And that was about as exciting as sitting out in the field watching the weeds grow, I thought they would at least post some live video feeds but with a 4 hour 25 min delay I could not stay awake long enough, so let the DVRF do it's job, now I can fast forward through it.

 

[Captain Jack]

Live video feed? They are saying it will 16 months to transfer all the data that it will have collected during its flyby!

 

[Terryl]

Yah, there is no DSL connection, and they didn't have a fiber cable that long, also the radio transmitter does not have a lot of bandwidth at that distance, about 2000 bit's per second, and that is dropping as it gets further away.

Info on this can be found here.

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Mission/Spacecraft/Data-Collection.php

Plus we are using the biggest radio telescopes on the planet to pick this stuff up, but after 3 + billion miles the signal is a bit weak.

 

[Channel Hopper]

And out the other side (it might even be in one piece).

http://www.theguardian.com/science/...es-pluto-flyby-nine-years-after-leaving-earth

 

[Terryl]

Hey you can see my house!!

 

[Channel Hopper]

Hey you can see my house!!

Which crater is your village in ?

 

[Terryl]

See the heart shaped outline, at the top just below where the heart dips down to a point, that little black dot is the satellite dish I just put up.........

 

[william-1]

Close up of pluto
NASA tv HD

Eutelsat @ 7 east

11077 H 4936 S2 HD

Pluto update

 

[Channel Hopper]

Back from my holiday and just wondering when Pluto will be put back to planet status.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...pletely-wrong-about-inert-pluto-10400272.html

and

http://www.sci-news.com/space/science-new-horizons-plutos-atmosphere-03036.html

Much more to be beamed back in August.

 

[Channel Hopper]

Oceans of flowing ice and Nitrogen mountains

http://astronomynow.com/2015/07/25/new-horizons-discovers-flowing-ices-on-pluto/

More images are to be released later today.

 

[Channel Hopper]

A full flyby.