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Re:Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama by toxican on Friday September 18, 2015 @08:37AM (#10238775)
For all the awe that the Martian and Lunar photos instill in me, this is just the most amazing thing ever. For the entirety of my life up until recently, Pluto was this impossibly distant planet that we knew very little about. We didn't even hardly know what it really looked like. I think the most we had was the blurry Hubble shots.

And now? Now I'm looking up close and personal at this impossibly distant object and can make out land structures. Just wow.

Re:Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama by mikeash on Friday September 18, 2015 @11:58AM (#10239937)
Before this year, I believe this was the best image of Pluto:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto#/media/File:Pluto_animie...

Re:Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama by asmithmd1 on Friday September 18, 2015 @12:11PM (#10240020)
Here is our best image of Pluto just 3 months ago:

http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nh-...

The image above is from the same camera as the images released today. Taking great pictures is not about the camera but about getting in the right spot at the right time

Re:Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama by jonknee on Friday September 18, 2015 @12:20PM (#10240062)
> Taking great pictures is not about the camera but about getting in the right spot at the right time

Exactly. It's an amusingly low res camera too, just 1 megapixel. But it's a workhorse!