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Baclava

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10. It's an ambitious mission - they are going even farther out than Pluto

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 5, 2014, 08:06 PM

Dec 2014

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I just hope we get some good pics

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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

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