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I'm still amazed we knew about its existence any time prior, the best picture we had in may is just 9 pixels wide. There's more visual information in Google's f

• colechristensen 11y ago
  However, it's not quite true. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/pluto-20100204.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/pluto-2010... Shows better the previous best.
  • teraflop 11y ago
    Those represent our previous best information about the surface of Pluto, but they're not individual photos -- they're composite reconstructions from a number of different images taken over a long period of time, as the planet rotated. > The Hubble images are a few pixels wide. But through a technique called dithering, multiple, slightly offset pictures can be combined through computer-image processing to synthesize a higher-resolution view than could be seen in a single exposure. "This has taken four years and 20 computers operating continuously and simultaneously to accomplish," says Buie, who developed special algorithms to sharpen the Hubble data.
    • Zardoz84 11y ago
      It's interesting notice that the white heart and the black whale could be found on these maps.
  • k_ 11y ago
    Stunning how they were close to the reality with those! There's all the major features of Pluto in there.