Pluto's atmosphere backlit by the Sun, photographed by New Horizons space probe

Pluto's atmosphere backlit by the Sun, photographed by New Horizons space probe

Beautiful!

PA

a reply to: putnam6

Lots of waste of space in that picture, take a look what happens if I raise the brightness and contrast.
Pretty tight cut, I wonder what they are hiding.

originally posted by: Spacespider
a reply to: putnam6

Lots of waste of space in that picture, take a look what happens if I raise the brightness and contrast.
Pretty tight cut, I wonder what they are hiding.

The galactic current sheet that's going to kill most of us by 2040? Lol

a reply to: Spacespider

There are no stars in space. 🤔🤔🕵️

originally posted by: Spacespider
a reply to: putnam6

Lots of waste of space in that picture, take a look what happens if I raise the brightness and contrast.
Pretty tight cut, I wonder what they are hiding.

Apologies LOL perhaps I need to quit posting so late/early. the first one I expanded to use as my desktop pic,below is the original

a reply to: putnam6

Thats incredible but it looks identical to the movie image/poster from "The Ring"

a reply to: putnam6

Yeah, but "science" told us it is not a planet, so Pluto can go back to being Mickey's dog.

Cheers

Looking like photoshop...

a reply to: putnam6

Cool picture , atmospheric even.

originally posted by: Lysergic
Looking like photoshop...

If it's photoshopped they did it on Nasa's site too

www.nasa.gov...

...so everyone missed the fact that Pluto:
HAS AN ATMOSPHERE

a reply to: Elvicious1

It's been known since the 1980s , just these days we get cool pictures of it.

originally posted by: gortex
a reply to: Elvicious1

It's been known since the 1980s , just these days we get cool pictures of it.

Thank you for that. You're too kind.

Using occultation involves actual sight. I wonder why no pictures before "New Horizons"?

originally posted by: Kurokage
a reply to: putnam6

Thats incredible but it looks identical to the movie image/poster from "The Ring"

You have seven days...

a reply to: Elvicious1

There are pictures before New Horizons but Pluto is far away , small and not well lit.

originally posted by: Elvicious1
...so everyone missed the fact that Pluto:
HAS AN ATMOSPHERE

Yes, it's been known for a while. What's going to blow you noggin even more is that fact that Pluto, as a result of having an atmosphere, is warming up, yes, that's right, Climate Change and it's not the only one.

MIT news from 2002

You may well find it interesting the Pluto and other planets with atmospheres are warming, but no one knows why. Earth is apparently warming because of humans, and that's it.

originally posted by: myselfaswell

originally posted by: Elvicious1
...so everyone missed the fact that Pluto:
HAS AN ATMOSPHERE

Yes, it's been known for a while. What's going to blow you noggin even more is that fact that Pluto, as a result of having an atmosphere, is warming up, yes, that's right, Climate Change and it's not the only one.

MIT news from 2002

You may well find it interesting the Pluto and other planets with atmospheres are warming, but no one knows why. Earth is apparently warming because of humans, and that's it.

There was a thread on ATS about our solar system moving through a denser, hotter portion of space. Possibly that is the reason?

originally posted by: gortex
a reply to: Elvicious1

There are pictures before New Horizons but Pluto is far away , small and not well lit.

Thank you again. The Hubble has produced amazing pictures of the depths of space. It's a shame we had to send another one to find the detail of something so close in comparison. I wonder if the picture on the left is a result of radio frequency? Especially given the pixelation when looked at close up. Regardless, the picture on the right is phenomenal. How long before a rover turns up there, I wonder. Maybe on the way, they could investigate that "craft" orbiting Jupiter's moon, Europa since NASA's Juno craft is unable, apparently.

originally posted by: Elvicious1
I wonder if the picture on the left is a result of radio frequency? Especially given the pixelation when looked at close up.

It's a CGI reconstruction/simulation from Hubble images, where Pluto is just a few pixels across.

www.smithsonianmag.com...