View from the New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto system
Here are the all available Pluto pictures from LORRI http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/Pluto-Encounter/index.php?page=1
Also, the all available Pluto pictures Emily Lakdawalla collected here: http://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/data/nh/index.html
Timetable of shootings can be found here: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/04291753-new-horizons-sees-surface.html
Data exchange process can be seen here: http://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html
Where is the New Horizons can be found here http://whereispluto.info и здесь http://www.dmuller.net/spaceflight/realtime.php?mission=newhorizons
The best from last available Pluto snapshort made July 13 20:17:35 UTC (simulation result are shown on te right).
Pluto map (http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=8047&view=findpost&p=222670):
The my guess about formation of such landscape can be read here (only Russian text): http://www.astronomy.ru/forum/index.php/topic,3219.msg3322796.html#msg3322796
Data download process: no images will be returned until September 14, at which point we will gradually get the entire image data set.
Record of Pluto FlyBy you can see on: http://youtu.be/GYpw4joQPzo and here http://youtu.be/tKHYGvv-204
Simulation of view from virtual Pluto orbiter: http://youtu.be/Fs9qq3gnAew
View to the New Horizons spacecraft (http://eyes.nasa.gov) Pictures show current simulated view of Pluto by LORRI camera. On left picture from distance 500000 km, on right picture from current NH location in space. |
Russian version of this site is http://swz.narod.ru/_Pluto/_NewHorizons.html