Those mountains! Anyone know how high they are - they look enormous.
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#12Those mountains! Anyone know how high they are - they look enormous.
A quick Google reveals 2 miles high or so. There must be some weird geology going on on Pluto!
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#13This makes a great Dual screen desktop background.
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#14Those mountains! Anyone know how high they are - they look enormous.
The photo caption has this description:
"The smooth expanse of the informally named icy plain Sputnik Planum (right) is flanked to the west (left) by rugged mountains up to 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) high, including the informally named Norgay Montes in the foreground and Hillary Montes on the skyline."
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#15Those mountains! Anyone know how high they are - they look enormous.
The photo caption has this description: "The smooth expanse of the informally named icy plain Sputnik Planum (right) is flanked to the west (left) by rugged mountains up to 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) high, including the informally named Norgay Montes in the foreground and Hillary Montes on the skyline."
Tip of the hat to Edmund and Tenzing. Nice!
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#16If this is not astro picture of the year, I don't know what is: http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nh-...
It's a black and white photo of rocks and ice. It's interesting that it is Pluto, but photo of the year? Why?
Usually photos are evaluated not only for the reality that they've captured, but also how hard it was to take that photo.
In the case of Pluto's high-resolution photos, there are maybe billion dollars behind it and hundreds of people that worked for years before actually the photo has been taken.
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#17If this is not astro picture of the year, I don't know what is: http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nh-...
It's a black and white photo of rocks and ice. It's interesting that it is Pluto, but photo of the year? Why?
A little over a century ago, this object was a hypothesis. The existence of this vivid image provides a peek into the vastness and variety of space, a humbling perspective on what dedicated people are capable of, and more broadly a clarion endorsement of the scientific method itself. Please pay attention.
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#19Those "hills" look like clouds to me (in 3rd image), the shadows appear to indicate a gap between the object and the surface.
Probably they are made from the same material as clouds.
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#20If this is not astro picture of the year, I don't know what is: http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nh-...
It's a black and white photo of rocks and ice. It's interesting that it is Pluto, but photo of the year? Why?
Pluto is 7.5 billion kilometers away. Let that sink in while you look at the photo.