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It's interesting that they are doing research using images that are going to be obsoleted very soon as the probe gets closer.
by smackfu 12y ago
It's interesting that they are doing research using images that are going to be obsoleted very soon as the probe gets closer.
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- benihana 12y ago"Nix and Hydra were discovered by New Horizons team members in Hubble Space Telescope images taken in 2005."
- joshuahedlund 12y agoThe word "spots" in the headline suggested (at least to me and apparently others) that the moons were previously unknown. Buried lede and all that. Still cool but not quite as exciting as New Horizons discovering new moons.
- semaphoreP 12y agoI think these images help them figure out what's interesting to study as the probe gets closer. It's going to zoom by, so they need to know beforehand what to look at.