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After 9 years since launch,
After travelling 5 billion miles
The new Horizons satellite probe has reached pluto and is currently taking mass readings and photographs of the very distant micro planet.
Once considered one of the 9 planets of our solar system, they now teach children of only 8 with pluto dropped from the list in recent years.
On board the new Horizons probe, which is approximately the size of a piano, are the ashes of the very man that discovered pluto in the early 20th century.
How poetic.
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@Anonymous wrote:Perhaps I was wrong then.
I thought they had plans to probe Uranus maybe in the near future then?
No, you're kind of right,
There have been many projects and trials but due to risk, as of yet there are no plans to probe uranus.
It's mainly down to being too risky, it's moons form a belt and beyond the belt is the rings.
As well as an icy ring inside, uranus has a wide dusty outer ring too, the risk of an accident is too high.
The angle of entry to uranus would be near impossible to calculate and getting past the belt of moons and wide ring would add to this impossibility.
I think it's kind of agreed with nasa scientists to just study Uranus from a far rather than try to probe it.
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@viridis wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:Perhaps I was wrong then.
I thought they had plans to probe Uranus maybe in the near future then?
No, you're kind of right,
There have been many projects and trials but due to risk, as of yet there are no plans to probe uranus.
It's mainly down to being too risky, it's moons form a belt and beyond the belt is the rings.
As well as an icy ring inside, uranus has a wide dusty outer ring too, the risk of an accident is too high.
The angle of entry to uranus would be near impossible to calculate and getting past the belt of moons and wide ring would add to this impossibility.
I think it's kind of agreed with nasa scientists to just study Uranus from a far rather than try to probe it.
I'll be linking my doctor to this post on my next check up....
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@Anonymous wrote:
Hopefully the scientists at NASA will decide to crack the numbers at some point and prove the impossible possible.
Suppose it's all down to cost. To probe Uranus would be a costly exercise.
Not from what I've heard 
@viridis wrote:After 9 years since launch,
After travelling 5 billion miles
The new Horizons satellite probe has reached pluto and is currently taking mass readings and photographs of the very distant micro planet.
Once considered one of the 9 planets of our solar system, they now teach children of only 8 with pluto dropped from the list in recent years.
On board the new Horizons probe, which is approximately the size of a piano, are the ashes of the very man that discovered pluto in the early 20th century.
How poetic.
Why are there no stars in the background of this picture?
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Why would there be,
The focus and metering would be on the brightest object, in this case the pluto surface. If the metering allowed stars to be visible there would just be an image of a white blob instead of the planets defined features.
Basically, the planet is too bright to allow background specks in the image.
The focus and metering would be on the brightest object, in this case the pluto surface. If the metering allowed stars to be visible there would just be an image of a white blob instead of the planets defined features.
Basically, the planet is too bright to allow background specks in the image.
@Anonymous wrote:
@viridis wrote:After 9 years since launch,
After travelling 5 billion miles
The new Horizons satellite probe has reached pluto and is currently taking mass readings and photographs of the very distant micro planet.
Once considered one of the 9 planets of our solar system, they now teach children of only 8 with pluto dropped from the list in recent years.
On board the new Horizons probe, which is approximately the size of a piano, are the ashes of the very man that discovered pluto in the early 20th century.
How poetic.
Why are there no stars in the background of this picture?
I can photshop John Terry in if you like?
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If you take a picture of a light bulb lit up, everything around it will darken so more detail of the bulb will show.
Same kinda thing.
Same kinda thing.
