Pluto Revealed! Latest Results from NASA's New Horizons Mission

[@JohnS916]

I just watched the Pluto mission documentary and followed up with Dr. Binzel's presentation and the combination was fascinating and inspirational. Thank you to the mission team and NASA for pushing our boundaries of exploration and discovery and sharing it all with us.

[@laydbakk1]

This lecture was made sometime in September, 2016 so, we've gotten much more data back from the New Horizons spacecraft and, learning from our fly by is still going on... I'm very grateful for so many brilliant minds that cooperated and, participated in this historic experience and, am humbled to have been alive to see it happen... Congrats and, salute to all the NASA team who made this happen...

[@joeflosion]

Awesome content. I was looking for a New Horizons Documentary but there was nothing with new data from the flyby. This answered so many questions. Thanks for the upload!

[@hellenapost1869]

totally agree ... I need more ....... we would really like to see a big flashy documentary .... this was fantastic

[@spooney64]

Terrific lesson and speaker. Great job done.

[@muskyelondragon]

Another spectacular success from NASA! You are so damn good!

[@muskyelondragon]

The complexity and activity on Pluto are astounding. This mission was money well spent. I am amazed at the complexity of such low temperature crusts and atmospheres.

[@WisdomVendor1]

Imagine what they could do with a decent size budget and a government backing then that has at least a small amount of scientific foresight.

[@fabiom7338]

😆😆😆

[@ralphfrasier2079]

Why are you wasting oxygen?

[@luizcsevero]

Without progressive, scientific discoveries, we would still be tribal groups only worrying about getting fed. Higher life expectancy due to lower childhood mortality, antibiotics, higher access to protein, doctors, surgery, transcontinental communication, all that come from going further ahead, investing money on science. And if you do the math, you will see that NASA's budget is very small compared to almost any federal expenses on USA. Don't be a science basher, you look ridiculous.

[@vicplichota]

skip to ~25:00, if you don't need any historical background.

[@krebsfish3356]

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[@dielreis]

thanks

[@paulbaker8]

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[@noneofyourbeeswax01]

thanks ;)

[@RiotOfVio]

I love you

[@brucebrucestofiston5554]

Great presentation. Very engaging

[@mirzamay]

Oh Pluto, they threw you down, treated you badly and told you that you weren't a real planet. But I love you Pluto, you'll always be a planet to me. Some day they'll know they were wrong .

[@jimboAndersenReviews]

Pluto moves around our star in a predictable pattern, it is even relatively round as well as having moons. So keep defining Pluto as a planet; I do too. I believe that the definition will swing back to readmitting Pluto in to the list of planets worthy of mentioning. Personally I mention Ceres, Haumea and Makemake as planets as well. -We would be able to attempt robotic missions to land on those worlds, retrieve samples that could be send back to Earth. -Manned missions to Ceres could conceivably be possible; conversely I'll wish all the best of luck to those who think that we could land a robotic, or manned mission on Jupiter, or Saturn, retrieve a sample, plant the flag and return to Earth. But those gas giants have not been threatened with being taken out of the International Astronomical Union's approved listing of mentionable planets :3

[@DewyPeters96]

Then make Sedna a planet too!

[@jimboAndersenReviews]

BTW, it is not "Nunatek", but "Nunataq", or "Nunatak", from "Nunat" Land, and the ending "aq" meaning Small, basically "small land area". Great presentation. Pluto is a planet, a dwarf planet like Ceres, but very much a planet non the less :3

[@jamesjordan5214]

What a wonder that mission to Pluto is! Pluto was always there, but it took Science to achieve that incredible mission!

[@evertonporter7887]

James Jordan Don't forget the engineers who built this spacecraft. Without engineering, the scientists don't have any instruments for doing science.

[@KarbineKyle]

Great talk! The New Horizons team did a spectacular job! Plutonium got New Horizons to Pluto! Pu-238 has a half-life of 88 years. It's a great isotope for space exploration when you need heat for RTGs! It emits alpha particles, which can be stopped by paper. It is also a great isotope because it emits gamma rays rather infrequently. It's a nearly-pure alpha source. Oak Ridge (ORNL) is producing it by bombarding Neptunium-237 with neutrons. I'm so happy the US has resumed production!

[@dirkbergstrom9751]

AWESOME TALK !

[@highwaltage]

is the probe equipped with instruments to detect electrostatic charge/ discharges and magnetic field strength and potential electrical energies? its elliptical orbit to me suggests that the body would be active from the resonance of cutting into the suns magnetic field at different angles. has there been any change observed in the orbit of charon n pluto? ie distances and speeds as they reach seasonal parts of its elliptical orbit? has fine dust exchanges between charon and pluto been observed at all?

[@highwaltage]

alright.. so they do detect ions 'escaping' from pluto. these are electrical discharges similar to cometary tails. the fact that pluto approaches the sun pole first should also suggest intersecting magnetic field lines at 90 degrees gives you what?

[@highwaltage]

also why do planetary scientists always suggest that water ice is the 'rock' of these cold bodies? mineral rock is the rock of all solid bodies, if it was water ice, since it floats on nitrogen it would be more of a floating island than a mountain peak poking through the layer from underneath... seems like an over simplified misleading concept. charon also looks like mars where half of the body seems to have a lower surface level than the rest.... the fact pluto exchanges particles with charon should be evidence enough that they are an electromagnetic pair. or do we believe that the heat of the sun on its approach is enough to eject gasses faaar out in front of pluto's orbit for charon to run into its ejected gases from sublimation? what sort of pressures are enough for geysers to eject at escape velocities? just thinking that these ejections are not ejections per se, discharges is a far more appropriate word to use, as the particles always end up riding magnetic field lines and fall onto the most convenient pole. i wish i could sit in one of these presentations and ask questions. id be annoying as hell but its a different line of questioning. last thing. should we impact pluto or charon with an impactor to observe surface composition, as well as observe whether an arc and flash just before impact. since an impactor would come in directly, intersecting the local magnetic field lines and gaining a difference in electrical potential to the bodies before reaching the 'spark gap' distance, then impact. measuring the distance from the surface of either body to impactor at the moment of discharge will allow calculations on electrical potential, this can then be applied to the model of the pluto system approaching the suns field as the impactor and determining the electrical potential between sun and pluto / charon at all points of its orbit, giving a better understanding of energies involved with elliptical orbiting bodies. or captured bodies.. interesting to note that pluto is moving around trying to settle its orbit possibly even slowing itself down via electromagnetic braking as it approaches its fastest and closest point to the sun by realigning its poles. is there any evidence of a shrinking or widening orbit? just applying the thought of electron orbits riding a stationary wave, earth being at 8hz from the sun. or whatever it is we resonate at. anyone care to entertain? or is it too much horse shit to even think about?

[@wallybjr8926]

Good presentation..would like to hve seen comparisons with Ceres...if any at all. Are variables in the gravitation show any anaomalies in their mass distribution? Thanks for the mission. Not impressed with launching plutonium as power....unless shielded from a possible craft disassemble in the launch phase from Earth..?? Anyway old news .... UAP's seem to have a faster means of transport for such exploration, maybe tag a ride for future ventures ?? Just height restrictions for passengers it seems. No mirrors broken so 7 more years of good luck...

[@joshcook7907]

NASA should get 10% of the military budget. Far better investment for advancement. We would be ages ahead of every other nation with the advancements we would need to come up with to explore. Our nation would secure world leadership as a superpower with economy generated.

[@naturaltruth1596]

At least 80% I would say. We don't need nukes if there is no world... it's the "us" or "them" mentality so prevalent in predatory species that have not matured enough to get along as a civilized worldwide society... face it mankind maybe simply another evolutionary dead end....

[@markrubin9449]

I recently bought some property on Pluto and plan to build a retirement home there. Yes, I prefer the cold climate. They said I could run an electrical cable from Earth for power. I also recently bought some gold coins for my worthless dollars. Boy O Boy did I outsmart them!

[@nebtheweb8885]

Feel free to move to Antarctica. If you can pass the test there, then feel free to head on out to Pluto.

[@darinloveland6120]

Look how close they were to how Pluto was even in the 80's. that's good science.

[@BigC25586]

Some more information on the moons would be great. Does anyone know any good resources I could use?

[@telemarkaeology]

There's just not a lot of data. There is another CfA Colloquium about Charon, though. I'll see if I can dig up a link.

[@telemarkaeology]

Sorry, not CfA. Still a good lecture. kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6Wqh5qea8Z0arM

[@mentordepret7951]

Congratulations for this marvellous presentation of Pluto and indeed astonishing what men accomplished in only 200 years. But it is even more astonishing that people are not able to prevent destruction of their own planet. I should think as a group we are total idiots.

[@InfiniteUniverse88]

I would have liked to hear a comparison of Pluto with Neptune's moon Triton.

[@1103MusikBerlin]

amazing video i can see here

[@alunchurcher7060]

When Pluto was demoted it made Holst the planets suite accurate again as to the planets.

[@Ometecuhtli]

I know he's trying to embelish the story and make the achievement seem more impressive than already is, but to put the measuring pole on Lewis & Clark's expedition, and go from there to interplanetary travel grossly distorts it, since it's already been 500 years that humans could circle the entire planet by ship.

[@not2tees]

Certain reptiles and some animals are instantly recognizable at sight to convey the message, "Do not touch." Similarly, some KZbin comments containing the words Earth and Flat convey this message to the wary hunters of its forest.

[@alunchurcher7060]

congrats the team management for employing the best person, even if it happened to be a female nice to see it happen. lets hope women are now given equal opportunities in this industry world wide.

[@frankfrantix]

Awesome, awesome just awesome, you should go back their, Well Explained.......'the stone the builders rejected turned out to be the most interesting;, When I.A.U & people were busy demoting Pluto from a Planet to a '"Dwarf Plant" New Horizons was busy heading to Pluto and it Turned out to be one of the most interesting the world have ever seen since the Exploration of Mars , good Job the THE TEAM THAT TOOK US TO PLUTO, We Still love that Planet 'Pluto' and we will always do, We now need Landing rover.

[@rogerpetronzio8337]

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[@Dissection47]

I have to agree with Steve. As astounding as the information on Pluto is, I would be much more interested in a mission to Titan, Enceladus, Or even Triton. Years back when they first found out that a moon may have a global ocean, underneath ice. I was psyched, even more so when they were talking about launching a probe that would be capable of entering the ocean by burrowing through the ice. However, since those times mentions of this mission have pretty much faded from existence. That kind of goes against the mantra of "Follow the water"

[@mrlopez-pz7pu]

Franco Odeny Will someone please explain to me why being called a "planet" one day and then a "dwarf planet" the next is perceived as a "demotion" in the first place? To say that Pluto was "kicked out of the solar system" is absurd, as if putting the word "dwarf" is somehow "less".

[@andycroucheaux4568]

He's making a lot of assumptions but nowhere does he mention anything about electrical scarring and planet formation. Please watch The Thunderbolts Project for more info. They make a LOT of sense.Thanks.

[@MichaelClark-uw7ex]

Anyone else notice the similarity between the shape of Tombaugh Regio and the destruction pattern of the Tunguska event? It is a "butterfly pattern". A comet exploding in Pluto's atmosphere or an extremely oblique comet strike?

[@laydbakk1]

Sort of my thought too when I first saw it in the close up shots... Perhaps what started the nitrogen flows was an impact which, brought or, helped to bring the more volatile materials up to the surface...

[@MichaelClark-uw7ex]

The shockwave and thermal pulse could have disrupted the nitrogen ice convection cells causing surface disruption matching the "butterfly pattern".

[@amandakowalski1171]

Pluto will be a Supermax Prison one day.

[@ossiedunstan4419]

we can send all the religious folk their , that would be a good start.

[@wcdeich4]

When will we know if the funding for the MU69 flyby has been approved?

[@TheAnubisDrake]

Was already approved. He said so twice in the video once while talking about that specifically that and again in the Q&A.

[@Kenzofeis]

Ad the Q&A session: The magnetometer (why not also a measure of electric field strength?) could be a module to be released from the main vessel and communicate by radio. This could even open for the possibility to land it on Charon to take a sample, and use the orbit as a springboard to return to Earth, or rather near Earth, to be intercepted/collected by another vessel.

[@rogerpetronzio8337]

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[@alanwilson2073]

I want to know of any structures showing evidence of someone else having been there or there now on Pluto or Mars or any of the other planets including Venus or even Mercury.

[@Deebz270]

Excellent report! Though I doubt anyone will be around in 2030/50, to 'go back there'. So much anthroptimism.

[@gdelva]

look up Cosmic Disclosure, very interesting information

[@jiteshshah4934]

can nasa show the image of sun from Pluto so i can justify the intensity and brightness of sun light from pluto

[@kenbobca]

"To infinity and beyond!"

[@ericwood3709]

Mac... lol And that's coming from a long-time Mac user. :D

[@markpreston8662]

Hi, I liked this video

[@williamorr8447]

be good to see more photos. when the aleins flyby they get this heart in their faces so they think we got a kooky system here....... oohhh yeah. boy are they in for a surprise its so cold its hot...... cant get enuufff.. I LOVED IT.. sorry cant spell.

[@MatHelm]

at 22:00 Blaming MS for his crapple crap...

[@oliverkalamata2753]

Woof woof!! 🐶

[@percih70]

why at 22:57 does Richard complain about microsoft hardware as he re boots a mac?

[@garycross6879]

With all of the information to teach your ignorant brain some KNOWLEDGE, you mention something retarded like that. America's educational system has failed miserably.

[@BrucknerMotet]

intro music: Johann Sebastian Bach, Goldberg Variations.

[@jamesbonde4470]

No, Bach, Toccata in Fugue D Minor. :*)

[@lamarsantos2966]

Pluto? Not so much. But If you love rumblings and photos of the speaker's colleagues, friends, beer buddies, a bunch of random guys and even some geek bedroom, this video is really fantastic! I'm afraid that skipping to ~25:00 will not save you from the blessing!

[@AliveWithPassion]

A NASA success; yet names the ice sheet on Pluto after Sputnik...🤔 WTF?!

[@jeanmeslier9491]

Maybe because the spacecraft was powered with Russian plutonium?

[@jackiedaniel2502]

Pluto and titan revisited

[@anewblu6916]

I just ate a tuna sandwich

[@PossMcLeod]

Thanks for sharing! :) I'm not wearing any pants!

[@raynaldchatillon7826]

As long as they don't have to drive anything, hiring woman isn't a problem..

[@CosgroveNotts]

Power points are always shite lol

[@garycross6879]

That explains your lack of education

[@mmmartin261]

Mark? Could you add more "ummms" and "ahhh" to the speech? Muted and fast forward. Good pics, didn't need an entire hour.

[@NicolaFaccioliniTv]

We need for private multirole interstellar spacecraft for manned exploration

[@konradcomrade4845]

I found a very astonishing paper, explaining the possible origin of 'Oumuamua: arxiv.org/abs/1801.02658 fascinating!

[@jeanmeslier9491]

I just read the comments. I lost IQ points.

[@julesmo323]

Now start calling Pluto a planet again if you want more funding!

[@technologyguruji5299]

Hii

[@GEMCAT12L2]

WHY DON'T WE CALL PLUTO A "LENS FLARE..." There are plenty of 'em out there nowadays!!

52:27 - Obligatory politically correct bow to marxism.

[@brianw612]

That fragrant is from Vesta? How is he sure of that? Has any mission ever retrieved a sample from Vesta? Is it proof, or simply scientific evidence? Don't say something without stating sources to prove it. He can not be 100 percent sure that came from Vesta, perhaps it did, but he can't know that with 100% surety.

[@zaniqbal]

Such a beautiful and harmonious system without a Creator! This is who Allah is. The ultimate Designer. Thanks Guys for all this effort. Great n keep it up.

[@whtbobwntsbobget]

Zan Iqbal Christ is King

[@alanamato5404]

What a load of crap I read the transmitter was 15 watts now it's suddenly 200 watts with plutonium did you realise that people would realise there is no way you could get a signal back on 15 watts?????

[@garycross6879]

You read??? I really doubt that. Idiots often cannot read and just look at the pictures.

[@derek0452]

this all lies nothing went to pluto, all artist impressions, they offered a friend of mine a job and all he does is draw. Am joking. I feel bad for conspiracy theorists, they are missing out on all this great discovery. Black hawks just scored again god damnit. Back to the game.

[@johnlodge4369]

The guy who started the global warming myth was American 1965. A lone scientist who was ignored in the U.S. He was a meteorologist.

[@Stephan74]

Nothing has been there.

[@johnlodge4369]

The Global warming myth started in the U.S.A in 1965 with one scientist who's name I forget. The British Government under Edward Heath had a look at the postulations and concluded it would be too costly to convert to alternative energy systems since in 1973/4 there wasn't much technology around to do this plus; the previous Labour government had committed to North Sea oil extraction. However, it was postulated the oil would run out in 40 years and new technologies would be needed. One of the cost benefits would be in the area of health. There would be a decline in respiratory disease if the use of fossil fuels were to be reduced. They did not deny that global temperatures would eventually increase. Europe followed with building solar arrays and wind turbines for generating electricity. It never had anything to do with China.

[@vitakyo982]

What about Mickey Mouse ?

[@AnthrYrslf]

Like ly

[@dogan6070]

boring

[@loadapish]

The intro music was crap

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

it's called classical music....it is a European civilized thing...sorry about that..

[@dennisthemenace6268]

What about the people who live there.... The cities???.....another non-sense mission. Horse crap... The truth would be nice for a change

[@johnrowsell8793]

All fake done in the Pixar studio

[@phdfloppercopter1002]

so all u do is steal others content and restream it....... fail

[@nicosmind3]

PHD floppercopter You think Harvard's CfA is stealing content? This is a lecture given at the CfA and on the CfA's channel. It even has the CfA's music at the very start, and is introduced by Mark Gurwell from the CfA. The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. You should double check these things :D

[@harryandruschak2843]

Troll....fail

[@ops3981]

Dude...nerd...you say nothing valuable

[@sagittariusa9279]

Because *you* don't understand it doesn't mean it's *not* valuable.. ;)

[@garycross6879]

No, only YOUR comments say nothing valuable. "Nerd" is a word invented by ignorant idiots to insult people that learned something in school.

[@fabiom7338]

lmaf!

[@flatearth7838]

Fake Fake Fake Fake

[@soniclab-cnc]

are we still going on about flat earth.... lmao

[@nebtheweb8885]

+Flat Earth The level of your ignorance is only matched by the astonishing self-delusion that you actually know better than the whole scientific community on the entire planet.

[@shirazenema3228]

Troll master

[@milejukic3297]

Of course it's fake, 90% of this video are guesses and speculations, and conclusions based on guesses and speculations :)

[@stjepan8743]

flat earth is product buy religion, and some freaks in it... some stupid people hahahahah.

[@hdgehog6]

At 49:35 it is my favorite pic from the last century. So much so it became my permanent graphics wallpaper expanded to 4k so if you are a web designer this my be fun? jaccinthebox.com/pluto-3840x2160x.png