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The Long, Strange Trip to Pluto, and How NASA Nearly Missed It

• mih 11y ago
  Timelapse of the volcano on Io referenced in the article http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/io-volcanoes-displaced.html http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/io-volcanoes... (2013). It's easy to forget Pluto & co. are not the only things unravelled by the New Horizons.
  • dandelany 11y ago
    That animation and this similar photo http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0801/jupiterio_newhorizons_big.jpg http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0801/jupiterio_newhorizons_b... are a couple of my favorite space images ever.
    • stilldavid 11y ago
      Wow - I've seen smaller versions of that photo amid all the New Horizons releases, but I never noticed that you can actually see the volcano erupting on Io!
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• nickpsecurity 11y ago
  "Wait, where is it? We've been flying through space for hours." "Weren't we supposed to angle a few degrees over at the last navpoint?" "No, I'm telling you I was lined up with that constellation. It's on the route. I know what I'm doing. We just need..." "There's the star pattern we were waiting for! Slow down now or your going to miss it!" "(expletives)!"