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    NASA Provides First Color Photos of Pluto and Charon

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    • mlnewsM
      mlnews
      last edited by mlnews

      NASA has managed to get back the first color photos yet taken of the most distant (sometimes) planet from Earth.

      pluto in color with charon

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        How.... exciting?

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        • nadnerBN
          nadnerB
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          That is so cool!

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          • Reid CooperR
            Reid Cooper
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            Very neat. Meet the day's most popular new desktop wallpaper.

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            • thanksajdotcomT
              thanksajdotcom
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              That's...so amazing?

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              • MattSpellerM
                MattSpeller
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                Enhance!

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                • tonyshowoffT
                  tonyshowoff
                  last edited by tonyshowoff

                  I was honestly worried that New Horizons wouldn't have the ability to make colour photographs (or assemble them from across the spectrum). In the past NASA (and the USSR) have sent black and white only visible light cameras to new, exciting places and made us wait 30 years before actually getting a damn colour image. Since Pluto had never been seen before up close, it seemed within the realm of logic that NASA would try to get the least colourful, lowest resolution colours absolutely possible, despite technology to do otherwise existing.

                  NASA enjoys making things as boring and unexciting as possible, especially in recent decades, making me think maybe the administration's leadership is just all trying to act like someone from a burger joint and trying to get fired by doing a crappy job so they can go on unemployment. Of course I'm being facetious, but you gotta wonder.

                  ETA: Often when I type NASA, I start to type Microsoft, and that's not a joke, I really do, it must be some deep seeded feeling of disappointment or something I have in both.

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                  • jevansJ
                    jevans @Reid Cooper
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                    @Reid-Cooper said:

                    Very neat. Meet the day's most popular new desktop wallpaper.

                    Yeah, people will think you have busted display or wonder why you have a constant glare on your screen.

                    This is exciting though. Hubble's photos make it look like it could be reddish. Also, the different chemical compounds on the surface and in the atmosphere are thought to make the planet look reddish. Can't wait until July!

                    Also, I can't wait for Dawn to get out of the dark side of Ceres. Exciting stuff going on in space this year.

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                    • ?
                      A Former User
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                      You mean that got a dust particle on their lens? How nice of them to show us. haha.

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