See the heart shape? No, I have no idea how it came to be unless it wanted to send its love to us for coming to visit and taking its picture.
Our probe took a close up of the white patch on one of its closer orbits and you can see the cracks and designs in it:
Then, of course there is the other Pluto, the one that has made us all smile and laugh out loud. Yep, Walt Disney's Pluto:
And before you ask, no, the dog Pluto was not the inspiration for naming the ninth planet Pluto.
Now, you all have a great day and enjoy what all the latest probe to the outer planet will show us, you hear?
It's going to take months to get all the photos taken by New Horizons, and I'm anxious to see them all. I hope they come with explanations that lay persons can understand.
ReplyDeleteWho knows, they may have to come up with some new names for things found there.
DeleteI think I've said before that Bill had Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto, as a prof when he was taking astronomy in college at Las Cruces. Wonder what he'd think of the new data....
ReplyDeleteI bet they would love it and be very excited.
DeleteAmazing times we live it. Pluto, thanks to the new photos, is now an actual place, not just a fuzzy blob in a powerful telescope.
ReplyDeleteYou hit the nail on the head. Man now has either bin or sent probes to all the planets plus a couple of asteroids. It is way too far to go anywhere else. Would take longer than a lifetime.
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