Report from the Planetary Frontier: The Latest from New Horizons at Pluto

[@20ZZ20]

The New Horizons flyover took place on my birthday, I was waiting for the images of Pluto for years :) Best birthday present

[@Eugwel]

New Horizons passing Pluto is a rare treat for those who appreciate the challenges of planetary exploration. I have great admiration for the science and astonishing vistas we find from such bold success. The last time I watch with my jaw agape like this was decending thru the frozen nitrogen atmosphere with Huygens as we landed on Titan. What a fantastic experience!

[@interdictr3657]

Thankyou! Always makes my day when we get a new lecture from you.

[@KarbineKyle]

Absolutely incredible! Thank you so much! This is what I live for! Such beautiful and mysterious worlds! Pluto is a lot like Triton in many ways, including mass, size, composition, temperature, atmospheric pressure, and density. Just . . . Wow!

[@HieronymousLex]

Such an interesting talk, thanks to Jeff Moore for sharing this info and Andrew Fraknoi for bringing this to the public. Pluto and Charon have fascinated me since I was a young child, and I still think about the outer worlds of our solar system all the time, imagining what it would be like to stand on them.

[@tumbl3r]

Pluto will ALWAYS be the ninth planet to me!

[@mrlopez-pz7pu]

Will you please explain to me why Pluto's former classification as a "planet" was somehow "better" than its classification as a "dwarf planet"? Why is this considered to be a "demotion" in the first place? Whatever the case, I got news for you - if a giant ball of ice & rock & its moons in the far reaches of our solar system was a conscious being, it wouldn't give a shit what human beings call it/classify it as, & it most certainly wouldn't give a shit about human beings either.

[@tumbl3r]

★ SpaceChanneL ☼ Based on a flawed definition

[@EatShiteAholes]

9 up thumbs. Oops! now it's 10.

[@RedfishInc]

SharpLight he is using US standard units, not imperial units, there is a difference.

[@JohnStopman]

@@mrlopez-pz7pu His reason? _Emotions_ ...as always. For some retarded reason someone's feelings determines what 'things are'.

[@princessmaly]

As far as going back is concerned, I'm pretty excited about light sails. We've been thinking interstellar with them, but how much of a perfect test run would it be to shoot off a couple of light sail cameras to see what Sedna looks like. To be honest, it sounds like light sails are going to be the only shot we'll get at seeing Sedna because it's already running away from it's still terrifyingly distant perihelion. But this also solves the problem with having so many targets out there: Eris, Orcus, Ophion, Haumea, Quaoar, and there's maybe even another planet x out there. And hey, we've still never seen Chiron yet and THAT'S a little insulting to be honest.

[@kraigthorne]

Malyssa, Think about this. If we put a giant laser on the far side of the Moon we can use it to defect incoming asteroids and propel small space probes www.newscientist.com/article/2102267-interstellar-probes-will-be-eroded-on-the-way-to-alpha-centauri/ over 1/5th the speed of light. This means we can quickly explore our solar system and other solar systems in our lifetime. The reason I think the Moon would be a better place than Earth for the laser is that there is no atmosphere to deal with and moonquakes are much smaller than earthquakes and are extremely predictable, whereas earthquakes are not.

[@galaxia4709]

I wish they would organize a press conference with the latest insights they gained by analyzing the newest data that have been downloaded from NH.

[@PatKittle]

Great job everyone, thank you.

[@richfiles]

40:05 Surprised by lack of craters... Lack of smaller things... Needed to use Hubble to even find any targets to fly to? So what? Has Pluto partially cleared it's orbital path? Wasn't that one of it's demotion arguments? Pluto is a planet. Will always be a planet to me!

[@rameyzamora1018]

Well said! Later data suggests Pluto is volcanically active!! So it smooshes over a lot of the craters. Pretty dang cool.

[@Jellyman1129]

Yeah, orbital clearing is an attribute nobody cares about when discussing planets like Pluto. It was added to a botched definition simply to limit the number of planets for convenience. Always was a planet, always will be!

[@mitchelloconnell3309]

It's awesome they finally talked about what they see on the landscape of Pluto but they've been there since 2012

[@johnhead1643]

New Horizons flew by Pluto in 2015, not 2012.

[@dennisj.varadesr9816]

I worked in the printing industry as a color laser scanner operator. I digitized photographs, slides, transparencies, and original artwork. We had 2 types of customers. One who wanted their printed piece to look as close as possible to their original photograph or artwork. Another who wanted their printed images to look as good as they possibly can, which ment turning up the sharpness, cleaning up the colors, pushing the contrast to the max. You can do that in Photoshop. On a countertop, you could see one of those printed pieces from across the room. Those printed pieces grab the attention of the human eye. I loved that job! It went away when the digital camera took over. So what is my question? While watching TV, maybe the news, the science channel or even NASA. Are we seeing things as they look or a digitally enhanced version to make everything look spectacular? Is it rendered art by digital artists?

[@jasonwoodford7700]

Dennis J. Varade SR they are nasa , photo shop is ,working the data ,they are inhanced photos for press release ,amped contrast , they add normal room light ,or everything would look dark an grey , but they dont try to lie ,they publish raw data ,too also...they pay artest to make special fancy views ,ofthe exact pure data ,they also will paint an expression of a semi valid theory , artests concepts . each nasaphoto is titled an marked . read slower ,

[@dorengarcia7925]

It depends... your eyes aren't sensitive to low light like an owls eyes. Sometimes they use long exposures to mimic more sensitive eyes so we can see it clearly. Sometimes they use wavelengths we can't see but translate those to our eyes wavelengths.

[@murlidharkhatkale5208]

Thanks for such a beautiful and detailed description of quite a complicated and interesting planetary cold surface of on 44:01 e of the fantastic planetary surface. ❤❤.r

[@maccmoses]

I've yet to see a documentary about Pluto,it's all about getting there,nothing showing the findings.

[@Eugwel]

FOUR AND A HALF HOURS for light to cross the distance from Pluto to Earth!

[@TheMontanaDave]

To put in into perspective; It takes just a bit over 8 mins for the light from sun to hit the Earth.

[@Eugwel]

TheMontanaDave We can thank Jewett & Luu for bringing the Kuiper belt to our door today. Good perspective cowboy!

[@Eugwel]

Can you imagine traveling with that beam through the solar system? At the speed of light! Taking all that time!

[@GirthiestWorm]

your wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@EzraSharp]

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[@kraigthorne]

Great nations do great things and sending probes to other planets is a great thing!

[@Studmasterify]

In what other field of science do you change a definition in order to exclude somethng from meeting the.new definition. Pluto apparently

[@Jellyman1129]

Yeah, the IAU didn’t want “too many” planets, so they screwed Pluto. But it’s still a planet, always has been, and always will be. A vote will never change that.

[@LakeNatomaInvite]

Is that a boxing glove attached to the telescope at 5:12? Did Wylie Coyote put it their to try and punch the Road Runner as he zoomed through the Lowell Observatory?

[@mjhopkins76]

Well, it is in the Arizona desert. I wonder if ACME is painted on the other side.

[@Hecatonicosachoron]

I do not know if there's a point in leaving any questions here (as I doubt that any of the organisers, speakers, their collaborators or their students and postdocs actually read them, and for good reason since they probably have better things to do), but I was wondering if the spectra that have been obtained from the NH have yielded any insights about the tholin deposits in Cthulhu regio, and in general in the equatorial band. Have the spectra been capable of identifying any interesting chemistry beyond that of low-mass hydrocarbons? I believe there is evidence of methane and ethane in the atmosphere as well as its surface, as well as ethyl and acetylene groups and even carbon-nitrogen and carbon-oxygen containing compounds from IR spectra - but can something more detailed be said about the composition and chemistry (as well as the reactivity) of the tholins? One would expect that after prolonged irradiation the surface molecules may actually form chain-like carbon clusters, or even cross-linked hydrocarbon-based polymers. So I wonder if any insights about more complex surface chemistry can be inferred from a detailed analysis of spatially-resolved IR and UV spectra.

[@PoliticalJohn]

+Jason93609 considering every time they refer to them it's in a nebulous way, and they repeat they do NOT understand tholin formation or deposition, me and you are going to have to wait a while.

[@Hecatonicosachoron]

To be fair to them, it is a problem that would probably need a lander equipped with a fairly high-resolution mass spectrometer in order to work, which is very unlikely to happen within the next 20-30 years (and given the difficulty of launching such a heavy and fragile instrument will probably never happen). My guess would be that they would use spectra of synthetic tholins to fit the spectra collected by NH and might place some limits on the average mass of the compounds - especially if they compare the spectra of complex organic deposits collected from regions which have been resurfaced by fresh ices, which contain material that was synthesised recently, compared to those in the equatorial band which seem to be much older. At the moment I would also tend to support to the view that reactions continue to take place at the surface as well. But, who knows, perhaps the future Europa mission may even shed some light on the complex aspects of surface chemistry of red icy bodies near & beyond the outer planets.

[@kevinclayton1656]

People who think space is FAKE..need help . 😉

[@thewatcher1776]

jep

[@atomicfairy9588]

People who think there are not dreaming need even more help.

[@234cheech]

THAY DO INDEED

[@mikewoodman2872]

234cheech YAS THAY DO INDEEDE NEEDE HALPPP! C'mon man, learn to spell.

[@maccmoses]

Nobody likes a grammar Nazi,if you understand their point who fucking cares? Some of us didn't get a good education,I have a 3rd grade education.

[@alunchurcher7060]

the closeness of pluto and caron would be a possible cause of volcanoes if my thinking is correct due to the pull of each others gravity

[@PIKCAP]

Go science Go! Congress, don't ever hinder nor stop Science. Put our collective brains together & there's little we can't come to understand. Use it wisely. Hope to live here long enough for the JWST to go on-line. Maybe see the senseless killing stop too.

[@Stellaluna88]

Does anyone else think the presenter resembles Malcolm McDowell?

[@fad1969]

Pluto is a planet.

[@johnhodge6610]

The New Horizons spacecraft was to explore the "Pioneer Anomaly". What happened to the report on the sunward acceleration?

[@LoveatFirstHike]

The cause of the so-called "Pioneer Anomoly" it turns out, is heat coming from the electrical current flowing through the probes' instrument and power systems. This heat pushed back on the spacecraft, causing them to decelerate slightly

[@johnhodge6610]

Yes the thermal recoil force model is currently accepted. But it has several flaws. Several of the anomaly observations remain unexplained - the annual sinusoidal, sidereal sinusoidal variation, the cosmological connection, the discrepancy between Sigma and CHASMP programs, and the significantly smaller blue shift immediately before P11 before the Saturn encounter. The New Horizon flight was supposed to have a long silent (power down) period to confirm the thermal recoil force and add data to the other unexplained observations.

[@dannypresley5353]

I think they should and it's very important that they send a Rover to take samples of Pluto only way to prove my theory

[@isidrocristobaldelolmo905]

Muy interesante : 11-5-2017

[@alunchurcher7060]

considering where Pluto and Charon are located id expect to of seen many many more craters.

[@dorengarcia7925]

Pluto's frozen... it melts, it cracks, there's wind and snow. Craters only remain on rocky surfaces without atmospheres.

[@Jellyman1129]

@@dorengarcia7925 ​​⁠ Also, the Kuiper Belt is so vast that Pluto never actually runs into any KBOs. Its orbit is largely empty.

[@dannypresley5353]

I know things are very technical and complicated but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what's out there

[@dannypresley5353]

You know the red stains on Pluto looks a lot like frozen blood

[@clondalkin26]

Why dose Pluto look so bright? It gets so little light.i remember hearing day light on Pluto would be like less than or equal to 5% than on earth.

[@HieronymousLex]

Patrick Smith way way less than that. I think Jupiter even only gets like 5 percent

[@HieronymousLex]

And it’s not bright, the images are not naked visual light. They are enhanced and use thing like long exposures to pick up enough light

[@yusufziyacetin]

Yeni horizonlar kutlu olsun kardeşim teşekkür ederim

[@dannypresley5353]

In fact I believe we will find human remains on every object in the kuiper belt

[@shauncampbell969]

Some consider Pluto not a planet, because it is hollow, but what about the hollow 🌍 Earth? We look for aliens but over 14 thousand aliens live on, in and throughout the Earth. We want to travel to the unknown galaxies but we know nothing about Earth's oceans.. We want to live super long lives but we don't know about reincarnation. All the best Shaun of NYC

[@communist-hippie]

it's just like christmas

[@julianabrown8283]

It's just part of the overall bar lowering arc for the amount of actual education that's felt necessary to send young adults out into the world with. Teachers can't be wasting time teaching kids Kuiper belt planets, when they have 107 chapters of Hitler and slavery to get through.

[@DTWX]

Cutest fucking Planet in our Solar System. The IAU should be ashamed of themselves.

[@Emdee5632]

Too bad for all the silly ignorant, anti-science, pro-religion comments here.

[@santiagoarcesueldo3687]

Couldn't they find someone more articulate to give this lecture/speech? I'm so annoyed by his hesitations that I just won't go on watching....I had enough!

[@jamesjordan5214]

The human brain. Above all: ALL!

[@jamesjordan5214]

***** Your rant only proves that the brain is above all, whether in sublime creation, or profane ranting. Get it, cretin?

[@kevinclayton1656]

If it only took NH 13 mth to get to Jupiter.why is it going to.take 3 years if we go direct with the Europa clipper mission and it will take 7 years if we go gravity assist way.SLS is supposedly the most powerful rocket ever and it will take that 3.5 years

[@dorengarcia7925]

Gravity assist depends on the alignment of the planets. For Pluto multiple planets were only aligned for a short window that only happens very occasionally.

[@kevinclayton1656]

@@dorengarcia7925 New Horizon only used Jupiter for the gravity assist, it was voyagers that used multiple planets,

[@robertcasey2490]

Looks like carbon monoxide doesn't always require gasoline powered cars to be created.

[@kosojmshj5564]

على فكرة كل شىء مش بقولة ومش بكتبوا فثط بشيل زنوووب

[@josegonzalezguerra1080]

muy bonito y hermoso

[@twistzhou8806]

it's amazing

[@DoctaOsiris]

Ugh... Best way to start a lecture, like with an inflection, like you're asking a QUEstiON, like he failed his ENGLish EXAms... 🤦‍♂️💥

[@vonstroop9866]

I detect a faint accent, English may not be his native language.

[@alangarland8571]

Is Eris a planet then?, or not?

[@kosojmshj5564]

قولت قكر صناعى لقيتوا معمووول بيضروا طفل قولت اى شىء اصل

[@saltekoff43]

It is all the same dirt.

[@saltekoff43]

@Fred Cink yeah but that stuff has to stick to something.

[@ZEZERBING]

Plu-toe?

[@harrykuheim6107]

Why aren't White Silicon Valley CEO's being called before Congress to explain why so few Minorities work in I.T. ?

[@jamesbonde4470]

Never trust anyone who wears suspenders.

[@stevemcdonald4400]

uuuhhhh uh uuuuuhhhhhh uhuhuh uuuhhh UHHHH oh,yes and, uuuuhhhhhh

[@shadetreader]

Glorifying Columbus = thumbs down

[@kosojmshj5564]

اتحرمت لية اتحرمت لية وعت هالوا اتحرمت لية

[@TheNebulousMistress]

I wonder if it's possible to get speakers who don't smack their lips together. It's beautiful science but maybe fewer disgusting sounds?

[@katy9291]

TheNebulousMistress THATS what you got from this?! wow

[@Dan47435]

It's a shame they use miles, instead of metres.

[@kevinfalcao8657]

ABRAHAMIC based religions HAVE to revise CREATIONISM. The moment in time has arrived

[@shantybpskrishnasamy8889]

image!, voice documents [lieON] solar ((alternative))CHARGED particles -!---- space shuttle((workers)) lieON!- rest

[@_georgee_7860]

so nasa can spend billions of dalares on space missions mean while people are dieing of starvation on earth.

[@katy9291]

Riki Hearts is right.. i would rather support space exploration projects than warfare. but what we support with our money is not always our decision

[@michaelvangundy226]

_george_ p Starvation is a problem caused by corrupt foreign government. The food is available but the African rulers want us to pay them to feed soldiers, not kids. Don't blame NASA.

[@fisterB]

We still have the same amount of food for starving people. The spacecraft is too small to bring any food items.

[@Emdee5632]

The annual US federal military budget is about 16%, maybe a couple of percentages more or less. The total budget for NASA is about 0.5%. And remember, the federal budget is far from the total GDP. Blaming NASA for the world's poverty and famine is preposterous. Many third world countries can only blame their own corrupt governments.

[@cymoonrbacpro9426]

BS

[@ithila6712]

Cretin

[@cymoonrbacpro9426]

Ithila crédule plus.google.com/110366823483604034354/posts/KHrNmskK6Yq?pli=1&pid=6276951073156947074&oid=110366823483604034354

[@chelliz8887]

Evolution of Pluto? Created One Trillion years? Delusion or Illusion? Nice Photoshop of Pluto!! All the Glory belongs to Scientist Delussionist..Amen

[@alexburke1899]

Who said anything about a trillion years? It’s pretty obvious you didn’t watch the talk and just hate science for religious reasons. I bet you trust scientists to build planes and phones.

[@Moronvideos1940]

Is this guy a farmer ? Disgusting how an educated man doesn't realize he UHS WAY TOO MUCH ... .And does he wear suspenders because he fears his pants may fall down ?

[@carlaandreasibassi871]

Bla bla bla.... And Pluto's blu skie ? And its heart so big depressed? Dover is a yoke! Andò its magnificent colour? You are clown ! It is a shame! People want to Know the truth!ll

[@faosparkNeo]

one truth i know is correct. YOU ARE DEAD WRONG AND STUPID

[@katy9291]

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