Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
Just look at Pluto. We built a camera, we threw it into space, and this is what it sent back. Atmosphere, lakes of ‘stuff’, ice mountains, valleys… Zoom in and think what a wonderful world we live in to be able to find another wonderful world.
Using the available data and images, with a bit of computer wizardry and filling in the blanks, Bjorn Jonsson has put together a video interpretation of the Pluto flyby by the ‘New Horizons’ probe. Just stunning. Pluto’s atmosphere is included and should be fairly realistic from about 10 seconds into the animation and to the end. Earlier it is largely just guesswork that can be improved in the future once all data has been downlinked from the spacecraft. Light from Pluto’s satellite Charon illuminates Pluto’s night side but is exaggerated here, in reality it would be only barely visible or
New Horizons wakes up from its slumber. Six weeks until operations against Pluto commence. Warm up the cameras, fire up the spectrograph, on the bounce little trooper. Let’s do some sciencing.
