New Image of Pluto

Re:New Image of Pluto by douche on Saturday July 11, 2015 @04:36AM (#9869070)

If we are shortly going to have that kind of resolution of Pluto, I'm a little curious that we haven't mapped nearer objects down to almost Google maps level detail. I would think that with Cold-War spy satellite technology, even, orbiting the moon, we could have every inch mapped in short order.

Maybe we did already, and it wasn't that interesting? I remember the Google Earth desktop client having a Moon mode at one time, but that may have been a tie-in when Curiosity landed on Mars.

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Re:New Image of Pluto by Maxious on Saturday July 11, 2015 @05:12AM (#9869147)

> Maybe we did already, and it wasn't that interesting?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementine_(spacecraft)#Missio...

> The lunar observations made included imaging at various wavelengths in the visible as well as in ultraviolet and infrared, laser ranging altimetry, gravimetry, and charged particle measurements. These observations were for the purposes of obtaining multi-spectral imaging of the entire lunar surface

This mission's result is what you see in "Visible" mode on Google Moon https://www.google.com/moon/

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Re:New Image of Pluto by InclinedPlane on Saturday July 11, 2015 @05:46AM (#9869196)

We've mapped the Moon and Mars to 0.5m resolution or so.

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