Home Featured TV Shows All TV Shows Movie Reviews Book Reviews Articles Frequently Asked Questions About Us

Happy Pluto Flyby Day!

by
Image Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI
This morning, New Horizons did a flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto and its teeny tiny moons with underworld names. We won't have the pictures back until tomorrow, but as a lifelong sci-fi geek, there's something about adding this last farflung heavenly body to our list of accomplishments that is really getting to me. (The other big thing I am so looking forward to is when people finally walk on Mars.)

Here's one of the "heart." I love that there's a heart on Pluto.


Anyone else all geeked out and excited? Post a comment!
---
Billie Doux loves good television and spends way too much time writing about it.
Tags: , , , ,

5 comments:

  1. SjusjunTuesday, July 14, 2015 at 10:29:00 AM EDT

    Yes! Very much so! Love this project. I'm also rooting for more research with Saturns and Jupters moons :)

    ReplyDelete
  2. DustinTuesday, July 14, 2015 at 2:36:00 PM EDT

    Agree with everything you said. I'm loving the pictures that have been coming back from New Horizons. PLUTO BABY!!!!! Woo hoo!

    I'd also like to see Uranus and Neptune orbiters like Cassini.

    ReplyDelete
  3. AnonymousWednesday, July 15, 2015 at 6:36:00 PM EDT

    Or course I am !

    We have accomplished SO MUCH these past few decades in astronomy and space exploration. Exciting times indeed.

    ReplyDelete
  4. TJThursday, July 16, 2015 at 12:42:00 AM EDT

    I'm super excited too!

    It turns out that Charon has canyons that are probably 6 kilometres deep. And Pluto has mountains 3500 metres high! Amazing!

    ReplyDelete
  5. JRSWednesday, July 22, 2015 at 6:47:00 AM EDT

    And I really can't wait to see what they discover about the ice mountains, and that strange mountain in a depression. If any of you are into astronomy, check out Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy blog - he's following all of this. www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy.html

    ReplyDelete

We love comments! We moderate because of spam and trolls, but don't let that stop you! It’s never too late to comment on an old show, but please don’t spoil future episodes for newbies.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)