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What an astounding feat! I remember reading they were going to aim for 2000 miles from Ultima Thule, was the closest approach revised to 18,000 miles?
by remote_phone 8y ago
What an astounding feat!
I remember reading they were going to aim for 2000 miles from Ultima Thule, was the closest approach revised to 18,000 miles?
- JshWright 8y agoNo, this photo was taken before the closest approach (note the very high sun angle, there's basically no shadows, so the probe was still inside the orbit of UT when the photo was taken). It's going to be another month before we see the closest/highest resolution photos (and years before all the data is downloaded)