{"id":10991,"date":"2015-07-16T01:07:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T05:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10991"},"modified":"2015-07-16T01:07:54","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T05:07:54","slug":"new-horizons-post-fly-by-briefing-initial-discoveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10991","title":{"rendered":"New Horizons: Post fly-by briefing + Initial discoveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday the first images from the <a href=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Horizons<\/a> pass through the Plutonian system were released. Here is a video of the post-flyby briefing :<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0jTdaOhG9wE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Here is the press release about the initial fly-by findings:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/News-Center\/News-Article.php?page=20150715\" target=\"_d\">From Mountains to Moons: Multiple Discoveries<br \/>\nfrom NASA&#8217;s New Horizons Pluto Mission<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Icy mountains on Pluto and a new, crisp view of its largest moon, Charon, are among the several discoveries announced Wednesday by the NASA&#8217;s New Horizons team, just one day after the spacecraft&#8217;s first ever Pluto flyby.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nh-pluto-surface-scale1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10992\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=10992\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nh-pluto-surface-scale1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1515,1005\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"nh-pluto-surface-scale[1]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nh-pluto-surface-scale1-1024x679.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10992 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nh-pluto-surface-scale1-1024x679.jpg\" alt=\"nh-pluto-surface-scale[1]\" width=\"520\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nh-pluto-surface-scale1-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nh-pluto-surface-scale1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nh-pluto-surface-scale1.jpg 1515w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/Multimedia\/Science-Photos\/image.php?gallery_id=2&amp;image_id=229\" target=\"_blank\">The Icy Mountains of Pluto (annotated) &#8211; July.15.15<\/a>: New close-up images of a region near Pluto\u2019s equator reveal a giant surprise: a range of youthful mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the surface of the icy body. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The mountains likely formed no more than 100 million years ago &#8212; mere youngsters relative to the 4.56-billion-year age of the solar system &#8212; and may still be in the process of building, says Jeff Moore of New Horizons\u2019 Geology, Geophysics and Imaging Team (GGI). That suggests the close-up region, which covers less than one percent of Pluto\u2019s surface, may still be geologically active today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/Multimedia\/Science-Photos\/image.php?gallery_id=2&amp;image_id=229\" target=\"_blank\">Continue&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pluto New Horizons is a true mission of exploration showing us why basic scientific research is so important,&#8221; said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA&#8217;s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. &#8220;The mission has had nine years to build expectations about what we would see during closest approach to Pluto and Charon. Today, we get the first sampling of the scientific treasure collected during those critical moments, and I can tell you it dramatically surpasses those high expectations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Home run!&#8221; said Alan Stern, principal investigator for New Horizons at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado. &#8220;New Horizons is returning amazing results already. The data look absolutely gorgeous, and Pluto and Charon are just mind blowing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-10991-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/common\/content\/videos\/dataMovies\/plutozoomanimationV2.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/common\/content\/videos\/dataMovies\/plutozoomanimationV2.mp4\">http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/common\/content\/videos\/dataMovies\/plutozoomanimationV2.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>This\u00a0movie zooms into the base of the heart-shaped feature on Pluto to highlight a new image captured by NASA&#8217;s New Horizons. The new image, seen in black and white against a previously released color image of Pluto, shows a mountain range with peaks jutting as high as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the surface of the icy body.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A new close-up image of an equatorial region near the base of Pluto&#8217;s bright heart-shaped feature shows a mountain range with peaks jutting as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the surface of the icy body.<\/p>\n<p>The mountains on Pluto likely formed no more than 100 million years ago &#8212; mere youngsters in a 4.56-billion-year-old solar system. This suggests the close-up region, which covers about one percent of Pluto&#8217;s surface, may still be geologically active today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is one of the youngest surfaces we&#8217;ve ever seen in the solar system,&#8221; said Jeff Moore of the New Horizons Geology, Geophysics and Imaging Team (GGI) at NASA&#8217;s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the icy moons of giant planets, Pluto cannot be heated by gravitational interactions with a much larger planetary body. Some other process must be generating the mountainous landscape.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This may cause us to rethink what powers geological activity on many other icy worlds,&#8221; says GGI deputy team leader John Spencer, SwRI.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nh-pluto-ice1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10995\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=10995\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nh-pluto-ice1.png\" data-orig-size=\"1041,583\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"nh-pluto-ice[1]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nh-pluto-ice1-1024x573.png\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10995 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nh-pluto-ice1-1024x573.png\" alt=\"nh-pluto-ice[1]\" width=\"520\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nh-pluto-ice1-1024x573.png 1024w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nh-pluto-ice1-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nh-pluto-ice1.png 1041w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/Multimedia\/Science-Photos\/image.php?gallery_id=2&amp;image_id=231\" target=\"_blank\">Pluto: The Ice Plot Thickens &#8211;\u00a0July 15, 2015<\/a>:\u00a0The latest spectra from New Horizons Ralph instrument reveal an abundance of methane ice, but with striking differences from place to place across the frozen surface of Pluto.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We just learned that in the north polar cap, methane ice is diluted in a thick, transparent slab of nitrogen ice resulting in strong absorption of infrared light, said New Horizons co-investigator Will Grundy, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona. In one of the visually dark equatorial patches, the methane ice has shallower infrared absorptions indicative of a very different texture. &#8220;The spectrum appears as if the ice is less diluted in nitrogen,&#8221; Grundy speculated or that it has a different texture in that area.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/Multimedia\/Science-Photos\/image.php?gallery_id=2&amp;image_id=231\" target=\"_blank\">Continue&#8230;<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>The new view of Charon reveals a youthful and varied terrain. Scientists are surprised by the apparent lack of craters. A swath of cliffs and troughs stretching about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) suggests widespread fracturing of Charon&#8217;s crust, likely the result of internal geological processes. The image also shows a canyon estimated to be 4 to 6 miles (7 to 9 kilometers) deep. In Charon&#8217;s north polar region, the dark surface markings have a diffuse boundary, suggesting a thin deposit or stain on the surface.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nh-charon1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10993\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=10993\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nh-charon1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1050,794\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"nh-charon[1]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nh-charon1-1024x774.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10993 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nh-charon1-1024x774.jpg\" alt=\"nh-charon[1]\" width=\"520\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nh-charon1-1024x774.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nh-charon1-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nh-charon1.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/Multimedia\/Science-Photos\/image.php?gallery_id=2&amp;image_id=230\" target=\"_blank\">Charon\u2019s Surprising Youthful and Varied Terrain &#8211; July.15.15<\/a>:\u00a0Remarkable new details of Pluto\u2019s largest moon Charon are revealed in this image from New Horizons\u2019 Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), taken late on July 13, 2015 from a distance of 289,000 miles (466,000 kilometers). <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>A swath of cliffs and troughs stretches about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) from left to right, suggesting widespread fracturing of Charon\u2019s crust, likely a result of internal processes. At upper right, along the moon\u2019s curving edge, is a canyon estimated to be 4 to 6 miles (7 to 9 kilometers) deep.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Mission scientists are surprised by the apparent lack of craters on Charon. South of the moon\u2019s equator, at the bottom of this image, terrain is lit by the slanting rays of the sun, creating shadows that make it easier to distinguish topography. Even here, however, relatively few craters are visible, indicating a relatively young surface that has been reshaped by geologic activity. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/Multimedia\/Science-Photos\/image.php?gallery_id=2&amp;image_id=230\" target=\"_blank\">Continue&#8230;<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New Horizons also observed the smaller members of the Pluto system, which includes four other moons: Nix, Hydra, Styx and Kerberos. A new sneak-peak image of Hydra is the first to reveal its apparent irregular shape and its size, estimated to be about 27 by 20 miles (43 by 33 kilometers).<\/p>\n<p>The observations also indicate Hydra&#8217;s surface is probably coated with water ice. Future images will reveal more clues about the formation of this and the other moon billions of years ago. Spectroscopic data from New Horizons&#8217; Ralph instruments reveal an abundance of methane ice, but with striking differences among regions across the frozen surface of Pluto.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nh-hydra_1_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10994\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=10994\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nh-hydra_1_01.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1050,704\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"nh-hydra_1_0[1]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nh-hydra_1_01-1024x687.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10994 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nh-hydra_1_01-1024x687.jpg\" alt=\"nh-hydra_1_0[1]\" width=\"520\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nh-hydra_1_01-1024x687.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nh-hydra_1_01-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nh-hydra_1_01.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/Multimedia\/Science-Photos\/image.php?gallery_id=2&amp;image_id=232\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Hydra Emerges from the Shadows &#8211;<\/em><\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/Multimedia\/Science-Photos\/image.php?gallery_id=2&amp;image_id=232\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0July 15, 2015<\/a>:\u00a0<\/em><em>Since its discovery in 2005, Pluto&#8217;s moon Hydra has been known only as a fuzzy dot of uncertain shape, size, and reflectivity. Imaging obtained during New Horizons&#8217; historic transit of the Pluto-Charon system and transmitted to Earth early this morning has definitively resolved these fundamental properties of Pluto&#8217;s outermost moon. Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) observations revealed an irregularly shaped body characterized by significant brightness variations over the surface. With a resolution of 2 miles (3 kilometers) per pixel, the LORRI image shows the tiny potato-shaped moon measures 27 miles (43 kilometers) by 20 miles (33 kilometers). <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Like that of Charon, Hydra&#8217;s surface is probably covered with water ice, the most abundant ice in the universe. Observed within Hydra&#8217;s bright regions is a darker circular structure with a diameter of approximately 6 miles (10 kilometers). Hydra&#8217;s reflectivity (the percentage of incident light reflected from the surface) is intermediate between that of Pluto and Charon. &#8220;New Horizons has finally nailed the basic physical properties of Hydra,&#8221; says Hal Weaver, New Horizons Project Scientist and LORRI science operations lead. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to see Hydra even better in the images yet to come.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hydra was approximately 400,000 miles away from New Horizons when the image was acquired.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland designed, built and operates the New Horizons spacecraft and manages the mission for NASA&#8217;s Science Mission Directorate. SwRI leads the mission, science team, payload operations and encounter science planning. New Horizons is part of NASA&#8217;s New Frontiers Program, managed by the agency&#8217;s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the New Horizons mission on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nasanewhorizons\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and use the hashtag #PlutoFlyby to join the conversation. Live updates also will be available on the mission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/new.horizons1\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the New Horizons mission, including fact sheets, schedules, video and all the new images, visit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/newhorizons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/newhorizons<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/planets\/plutotoolkit.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/planets\/plutotoolkit.cfm<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday the first images from the New Horizons pass through the Plutonian system were released. Here is a video of the post-flyby briefing : &#8212; Here is the press release about the initial fly-by findings: From Mountains to Moons: Multiple Discoveries from NASA&#8217;s New Horizons Pluto Mission Icy mountains on Pluto and a new, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10991\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Horizons: Post fly-by briefing + Initial discoveries<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,13,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pluto","category-space-science","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2Rh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10956,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10956","url_meta":{"origin":10991,"position":0},"title":"New Horizons: Misc. resources, websites, etc.","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 12, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The next few days will be extremely busy and exciting for the New Horizons\u00a0team. 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