Re:Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama
by mikeash on Friday September 18, 2015 @11:58AM
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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
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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
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> 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!
And now? Now I'm looking up close and personal at this impossibly distant object and can make out land structures. Just wow.