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... Best View of Pluto’s Craters, Mountains and Icy Plains

submitted by ant

9 years 3 months 1 week ago

"This movie is composed of the sharpest views of Pluto that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft obtained during its flyby on July 14, 2015. The pictures are part of a sequence taken near New Horizons’ closest approach to Pluto, with resolutions of about 250-280 feet (77-85 meters) per pixel – revealing features smaller than half a city block on Pluto’s diverse surface. The images include a wide variety of cratered, mountainous and glacial terrains – giving scientists and the public alike a super-high resolution view of Pluto’s complexity..."

From http://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-horizons-returns-first-of-the-best-images-of-pluto from http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/12/05/0132249/new-horizons-first-ultra-high-resolution-photos-of-pluto-released ...

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siftbot

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Moving this video to ant's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

eric3579

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*promote

siftbot

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Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued - promote requested by eric3579.

Curious says...

Stunning that we're so up and close to it. Still, one pixel does not make a "feature". It's like saying you can make out someone's face when their head is a grey box.