Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Pluto in High Definition

Modern technology has changed vastly in the 9 years the New Horizons ship was launched into deep space. It has traveled over 3 billion miles from earth!

The standard has been the Hubble space telescope which sits above earth's atmosphere taking some awe-inspiring pics of the known universe. But the digital detail that the New Horizons cameras are taking and sending back to us is amazing. And they're being shared on Instagram!

The following link is one of the multitude of online articles to look through dealing with the New Horizons pics of Pluto—again, the detail is amazing when compared to the Hubble telescope orbiting the earth … http://www.wired.com/2015/07/nasa-teams-instagram-debut-pluto-surface-photo/

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