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Posted: 1/15/2021 8:43:07 PM EDT

This is part of a massive picture taken by New Horizons using MVIC, the other imager (not LORRI, which is narrower field), with a panchromatic filter (that is, no color). From an altitude of 18,000 km.

Posted: 1/15/2021 8:44:24 PM EDT

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Posted: 1/15/2021 8:47:06 PM EDT

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Clouds? Or methane ice mountains?

Posted: 1/15/2021 8:48:49 PM EDT

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Those are water ice mountains, IIRC. You can see the atmosphere in the picture, though. There are also color shots taken from that angle, IIRC.

I was looking at this stuff the other day.

Posted: 1/15/2021 8:50:21 PM EDT

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Dominion even has servers there...can tell by the pixels

Posted: 1/15/2021 8:50:49 PM EDT

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Thats will always be planet to me.

I dont care what black science man says.

Posted: 1/15/2021 8:51:41 PM EDT

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Cool!

Posted: 1/15/2021 9:00:48 PM EDT

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The vastness of space always amazes me. I know some folks get freaked out by caving or diving along a deep ocean abyss, but for me, it's space. One particular scene early on in The Expanse drives it home when one of the belters is spaced out an airlock. Hopelessly floating away with nothing above or below him for millions / billions of miles and nothing to latch on to. This photo reminds me of it. Just kind of freaky.

Posted: 1/15/2021 9:03:02 PM EDT

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Someday in the not too distant future men will stand on that last dwarf planet and look further into space.

Posted: 1/15/2021 9:04:17 PM EDT

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I've always hoped that one of the flyby's will capture a photo of a huge Beetlejuice like sign flashing " F U Arock " on someplace like Pluto. Still hoping.

Posted: 1/15/2021 9:04:37 PM EDT

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Still a planet

Posted: 1/15/2021 9:06:48 PM EDT

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Yep. Anyone who says it's not is a communist cretin who reads Marx.

Posted: 1/15/2021 9:07:44 PM EDT

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Posted: 1/15/2021 9:09:09 PM EDT

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I am amazed by the illumination.

The sun is a speck from that distance.

Posted: 1/15/2021 9:09:53 PM EDT

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Sure wish the lens on my phone was that good.

Posted: 1/15/2021 9:23:11 PM EDT

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Neptune sized planet beyond Pluto.

ScienceMag.com Article on Planet X

Posted: 1/15/2021 9:49:13 PM EDT

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It's round?!

Posted: 1/15/2021 9:52:15 PM EDT

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Not too distant? LOL. I want what you're smoking.

Maybe in another 200 years...if we don't have a societal meltdown first.

Posted: 1/15/2021 9:53:42 PM EDT

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Space, the final frontier...

Posted: 1/15/2021 9:56:49 PM EDT

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Neptune sized planet beyond Pluto.

ScienceMag.com Article on Planet X

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You want Ghidorah, this is how you get Ghidorah

Posted: 1/15/2021 9:58:39 PM EDT

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Not too distant? LOL. I want what you're smoking.

Maybe in another 200 years...if we don't have a societal meltdown first.

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Someday in the not too distant future men will stand on that last dwarf planet and look further into space.

Not too distant? LOL. I want what you're smoking.

Maybe in another 200 years...if we don't have a societal meltdown first.

Another lifeless rock. Space makes great pictures, and science. It's about as exciting as living on the bottom of the Marianas Trench. In a smelly stinky phone booth.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:04:33 PM EDT

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The vastness of space always amazes me. I know some folks get freaked out by caving or diving along a deep ocean abyss, but for me, it's space. One particular scene early on in The Expanse drives it home when one of the belters is spaced out an airlock. Hopelessly floating away with nothing above or below him for millions / billions of miles and nothing to latch on to. This photo reminds me of it. Just kind of freaky.

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I had that exact dream about three nights ago. Floating in an endless void. Stars all around me but unimaginable distances away. Strangely it wasn't as terrifying as you'd think.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:06:16 PM EDT

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Not too distant? LOL. I want what you're smoking.

Maybe in another 200 years...if we don't have a societal meltdown first.

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Someday in the not too distant future men will stand on that last dwarf planet and look further into space.

Not too distant? LOL. I want what you're smoking.

Maybe in another 200 years...if we don't have a societal meltdown first.

Yah, we're preoccupied at the moment with babysitting third world shitholes and paying for gender studies in other shitholes.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:15:08 PM EDT

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Fucking A right it is.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:18:20 PM EDT

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Looks like a planet to me.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:20:52 PM EDT

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Pluto is a planet. Always has been. Fuck revisionist astronomy.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:22:17 PM EDT

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Posted: 1/15/2021 10:28:35 PM EDT

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Pluto still is a planet in the state of New Mexico.

Posted: 1/15/2021 11:41:11 PM EDT

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Remember when Pluto was still a planet?
Pepperidge Farm Remembers.

Posted: 1/15/2021 11:45:28 PM EDT

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Fuck yeah. Fist bump.

Posted: 1/15/2021 11:49:14 PM EDT

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The vastness of space always amazes me. I know some folks get freaked out by caving or diving along a deep ocean abyss, but for me, it's space. One particular scene early on in The Expanse drives it home when one of the belters is spaced out an airlock. Hopelessly floating away with nothing above or below him for millions / billions of miles and nothing to latch on to. This photo reminds me of it. Just kind of freaky.

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I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.

Posted: 1/15/2021 11:51:32 PM EDT

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Did you just assume that interstellar object’s identity?

Posted: 1/15/2021 11:55:26 PM EDT

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Looks like Utah.

Posted: 1/15/2021 11:56:20 PM EDT

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See the 2 thingys at 1-2 o-clock?

Posted: 1/15/2021 11:57:04 PM EDT

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This.

Posted: 1/15/2021 11:57:19 PM EDT

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Wow neat. Getting pretty far out there, whats beyond???

Posted: 1/16/2021 12:00:07 AM EDT

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You hear about Pluto? That's messed up, right?

Posted: 1/16/2021 12:00:22 AM EDT

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Posted: 1/16/2021 12:23:14 AM EDT

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If pluto is a planet....so is Eris

Posted: 1/16/2021 1:20:31 AM EDT

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Nobody wants to mention that if in the Pluto camp.

Posted: 1/16/2021 1:40:01 AM EDT

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Poor old planet Pluto now
He never stood a chance no how
When he got uninvited to
The interplanetary dance
Once a mighty planet there
Now just an ordinary star
Hanging out in Hollywood
In some old funky sushi bar

Posted: 1/16/2021 1:46:07 AM EDT

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Maybe the Chinese. The entire west has decided to become nothing more than babysitters and destroy themselves.

Posted: 1/16/2021 1:46:39 AM EDT

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Some of you guys think you've been where it's cold.
Pluto is COLD.

Posted: 1/16/2021 1:54:51 AM EDT

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Plutonians, you say? (With the pseudo-German accent)

Posted: 1/16/2021 1:55:26 AM EDT

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Being so far from the sun, there is little solar wind to blow that atmosphere off of the planet, even with such low gravity and no magnetosphere. Even Mars had its atmosphere (and water), minus the heavier CO2, blown off. The atmospheric pressure is probably several milligrams per cubic meter, but it still exists. It's probably just the vapor pressure of the frozen gasses such as nitrogen and methane on the surface. Pretty cool stuff.

As a total astronomy nerd as a little kid (when I was 8 my best two Christmas/birthday gifts of all time were a 4" reflector telescope and a college astronomy book), I would have been excited off all charts to see such photos. As a 38 year old, I'm still filled with awe.