Here's how fast New Horizons is moving, contextualized for us Earth dwelling humans.

Originally shared by AsapSCIENCE

Here's how fast New Horizons is moving, contextualized for us Earth dwelling humans. 

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via: http://www.sciencealert.com/this-gif-shows-how-mind-blowingly-fast-new-horizons-is-travelling-through-space

Pluto mountain range close-up image colorized and slightly sharpened

Originally shared by Pierre Markuse

Pluto mountain range close-up image colorized and slightly sharpened

I took the recently published close-up of a mountain range on Pluto and colorized it using the color scheme from previous color images. Image is slightly zoomed in and sharpened.

Original image and information can be found here:
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/the-icy-mountains-of-pluto

More on the New Horizons space probe and its mission:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons

Image credit: Close-up image of a region near Pluto’s equator NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI / Colorized and edited by Pierre Markuse 

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