Some of you may know about this, but for those who do not I'd thought I'd make a thread talking about it. We as humans have made it to the outer edge of our solar system and have visited Pluto for the first time. This is HUGE. We have traveled over 3 billion miles in space. Space, an unknown place where so much stuff can go wrong. We made it to Pluto, preformed a FLAWLESS flyby procedure and have gathered data and taken the first high resolution pictures of the distant world. I just want to let some of you guys know, because some people have literally spent their whole life working on this, and it is important to acknowledge something like this. Now, for those of you who would like, I will attach some images and videos from yesterdays perfect flyby. http://prntscr.com/7t7foi Pluto^ http://prntscr.com/7t7guu Pluto's moon, Charon ^ And a heartwarming video of the team who have invested their lives to the success of this mission finding out the spacecraft had survived the flyby. ~Agafa
One of nasa's last government funded spacecraft missions and we got pictures of pluto... A dwarf planet... yay Guess it's cool though Edit: Btw the spacecraft was set out in 2006. So it took 9 years for it to slowly float to pluto, just some more info.
We have pictures of things from outside our solar system, it's just.. we never had a HD picture of pluto.
Actually back in 97 the russians took a picture of plu- I mean uhh, yes best picture of Pluto since flyby... Heh heh heh
they also planed about every second of its journey since 2006 so they know exactly whats going to happen in our solar system for the next 5 years....
So, when did the dog we all know and love become an astronaut? Oh, you mean the planet! This is really cool, Why they worked this hard? FOR SCIENCE! Congrats to everyone who worked SO hard on this mission, even though they prolly won't see this post ._.
