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Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama

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Re: Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama

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Post by bad-joke »

ckarmann wrote: post #72
psygong2 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a black and white photo of rocks and ice. It's interesting that it is Pluto, but photo of the year? Why?

While other have insisted on how that photo is a technology feast, taken from billions of miles away, from something we have never seen before, it's also breathtaking from what it shows: a multilayered atmosphere, completely unique in the Solar System; mountains of water ice next to vast plains of what may be ice nitrogen, also features never seen before on any other body of the Solar System. Before July, many people…

Weirdly, the light is what surprises me the most. I always thought the surface of Pluto was cloaked in eternal night because the sun is so far away. Turns out high noon on Pluto is more or less as bright as twilight on Earth!

Check your local "Pluto time" here: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/plutotime/

Re: Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama

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Post by thangalin »

serengeti wrote: post #81
heyitskevin wrote: post #40

For a visual of how far away Pluto really is from Earth(and really how far away everything in our solar system is from eachother) I recommend checking out Riding Light https://vimeo.com/117815404 "This animation illustrates, in realtime, the journey of a photon of light emitted from the surface of the sun and traveling across a portion of the solar system, from a human perspective." The video is 45 minutes long and m…

This is the perfect evening activity. I could have watched it for 5.5 hours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM0JMaM_tdQ

Video I made to show distances between planets, with short stops at each one to show off its spectacular beauty. Earth was the most difficult to render due to lights on its night side; Mars proved challenging because of its atmosphere.

Re: Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama

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Post by sp332 »

sp332 wrote: post #90
heyitskevin wrote: post #40

For a visual of how far away Pluto really is from Earth(and really how far away everything in our solar system is from eachother) I recommend checking out Riding Light https://vimeo.com/117815404 "This animation illustrates, in realtime, the journey of a photon of light emitted from the surface of the sun and traveling across a portion of the solar system, from a human perspective." The video is 45 minutes long and m…

New Horizons' next target is a rock about 1 billion miles beyond Pluto. It will only take 4 years to get there. https://i.imgur.com/OGKtgsq.gifv

Regarding downvotes: It's true, here's a source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_MU69#Exploration

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Post by effie »

coryfklein wrote: post #89
dvh wrote: post #2

If this is not astro picture of the year, I don't know what is: http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nh-...

I scaled it to fit 2560x1440 for my Apple Cinema Displays and used content-aware fill in the black space in the margins on the top and bottom. It works as an amazing wallpaper. http://i.imgur.com/GykjvD7.png

Does anybody know if it is possible to remove the artifact dashing from the picture?

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Post by orbifold »

moron4hire wrote: post #49
kenrikm wrote: post #43

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The solution is not to tax "toys" as you call them, there are already plenty of existing tax dollars to go around. The larger issue is that we would rather buy 1700 F35 fighters instead of funding NASA for the next 10 years. Actually even the F35 is a slightly more reasonable use of money then some of the other things that make it onto the budget. The money is there in many cases but the will to use it for NASA is no…

Yeah, if we just stopped burning dollars by the cargoship load on a "war" with no defined goals, then we could probably afford to do whatever the hell we wanted on every other project going on in the country.

The money isn't burned, it is used to stimulate the economy and keep people in the military industrial complex employed.

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Post by moron4hire »

orbifold wrote: post #96
moron4hire wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, if we just stopped burning dollars by the cargoship load on a "war" with no defined goals, then we could probably afford to do whatever the hell we wanted on every other project going on in the country.

The money isn't burned, it is used to stimulate the economy and keep people in the military industrial complex employed.

No, the labor, application of skill, and physical resources that the money represents literally gets blown up. We have bridges falling down, not enough roads, the highest healthcare costs in the developed world, and we're spending money on bombs.

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Post by moron4hire »

eric_h wrote: post #55
ahuth wrote: post #50

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Pretty sure he/she's not talking about accounting.

Indeed, my point was that arguing that the pluto mission cost "only" $720 million and thus comparing the value of the products of this mission as less than the acquisitions of Oculus at $2B and Mojang at $2.5B does a great disservice to this achievement.

No, that's not what I was doing. I wasn't saying price = value. I was specifically trying to say the opposite, that such an obviously valuable project had come at an incredibly cheap price, comparatively.

Re: Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama

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Post by tripzilch »

effie wrote: post #95
coryfklein wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I scaled it to fit 2560x1440 for my Apple Cinema Displays and used content-aware fill in the black space in the margins on the top and bottom. It works as an amazing wallpaper. http://i.imgur.com/GykjvD7.png

Does anybody know if it is possible to remove the artifact dashing from the picture?

They appear to be parallel lines at an angle of about 12 degrees off horizontal. In a quick check it doesn't appear they are noticeably curved.

So in that case, a specific (small) region of the Fourier spectrum of that image should correspond to just those lines. So convert your image to Fourier space, locate the region (.. yeah, best to calculate where it should be, cause it won't really stand out enough to spot as the dashing is quite subtle), and then blur, or content-aware heal, or even just blacken the area. Convert back. Dashes gone.

Easy as pi! cough

Re: Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama

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Post by eric_h »

moron4hire wrote: post #98
eric_h wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed, my point was that arguing that the pluto mission cost "only" $720 million and thus comparing the value of the products of this mission as less than the acquisitions of Oculus at $2B and Mojang at $2.5B does a great disservice to this achievement.

No, that's not what I was doing. I wasn't saying price = value. I was specifically trying to say the opposite, that such an obviously valuable project had come at an incredibly cheap price, comparatively.

Fair enough. Honestly I also think the comparison demonstrates how over valued those acquisitions were (in terms of what they bring to the human race).
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