Alan Stern: What We Found at Pluto

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Alan Stern: What We Found at Pluto

Post by Ann » Sun Aug 09, 2015 8:26 am

Alan Stern: What We Found at Pluto
In a new blog at Sky & Telescope, Alan Stern summarizes what has so far been learnt at Pluto. Don't miss the delightful informal names suggested for Pluto and Charon. Also look at the comparison of two New York Times front pages, one from 2015 with a picture of Pluto and one from 1965 with a picture of Mars.

The blog does not contain a lot of news, but please note how Alan Stern's blog ends:
The flyby of Pluto and its system of moons by New Horizons is complete, but over 95% of the data from that reconnaissance is still aboard the spacecraft, awaiting downlink to Earth. Getting all those observations back will take some 16 months and won't complete until the fall of 2016. So expect many more images and spectra and, from those, many more discoveries in the months ahead. New Horizons is a gift that will keep on giving. - See more at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronom ... ScPQl.dpuf
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