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True Blue Door

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8. We get new worlds in 2015: Ceres and then Pluto.

Reply to Baclava (Original post)

Fri Dec 5, 2014, 05:18 PM

Dec 2014

Three if you count Charon, which New Horizons will probably get good shots of.

I'm personally more excited about Ceres because it's close enough to be within the realm of possibility that humans will visit it in my lifetime.

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New Horizons wake up - On Pluto's Doorstep [View all] Baclava Dec 2014 OP

The Jupiter fly by photographs are astonishing. Thank you for the info. Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #1

It's an ambitious mission - they are going even farther out than Pluto Baclava Dec 2014 #10

That blue circle would be fairly close to the size of earth in comparison to Jupiter. BlueJazz Dec 2014 #2

Actually, 3 earths, side by side. opiate69 Dec 2014 #3

Earth is about 8000 miles Jupiter about 89, 000 Miles BlueJazz Dec 2014 #7

ha ha! I like yours better - theirs is too Rod Serling Twilight Zone-ish Baclava Dec 2014 #4

If you have a smart phone, there is a NASA app for New Horizons. I'm gonna nerd out for a second. Glassunion Dec 2014 #5

Yeah - I saw that plume on Io - too cool - Here's the press kit - details for the entire mission Baclava Dec 2014 #6

Yes - I have that NASA app - thanks Baclava Dec 2014 #12

There is another separate app just for the New Horizons mission Glassunion Dec 2014 #14

We get new worlds in 2015: Ceres and then Pluto. True Blue Door Dec 2014 #8

"Ceres, yes!....... "more fresh water than on earth" Baclava Dec 2014 #9

Ooh! I'd forgotten about the Ceres mission. (nt) Posteritatis Dec 2014 #11

Ceres would be a great spot for a colony Odin2005 Dec 2014 #15

Indeed. The whole Main Belt may become like the ancient Aegean islands. True Blue Door Dec 2014 #19

Wake Up, New Horizons! Wake Up, DU! VOTE!!!!! Octafish Dec 2014 #13

"At 3:30 p.m. ET Saturday, the probe's main computer will start waking up" Baclava Dec 2014 #16

Amazing! And, hopefully, Pluto is one part of NH's mission... Octafish Dec 2014 #17

IT'S ALIVE! Baclava Dec 2014 #18