{"id":34575,"date":"2015-07-14T22:07:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T04:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/?p=34575"},"modified":"2015-07-14T22:07:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T04:07:18","slug":"new-horizons-phoned-home-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/2015\/07\/new-horizons-phoned-home-today\/","title":{"rendered":"New Horizons phoned home today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Horizons\" target=\"_blank\">New Horizons<\/a>, an interplanetary space probe that was launched on January 19, 2006, passed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dwarf_planet\" target=\"_blank\">dwarf planet<\/a>, Pluto and took the best pictures to date of the distant <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plutoid\" target=\"_blank\">plutoid<\/a>.\u00a0 Yesterday, New Horizons sent back the following picture of Pluto.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34576\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34576\" style=\"width: 686px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P_LORRI_FULLFRAME_COLOR_cropped.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P_LORRI_FULLFRAME_COLOR_cropped.png\" alt=\"Pluto picture\" width=\"686\" height=\"708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P_LORRI_FULLFRAME_COLOR_cropped.png 686w, https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P_LORRI_FULLFRAME_COLOR_cropped-291x300.png 291w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pluto from New Horizons on 7\/13\/2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The best picture previous to New Horizons was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994, shown below.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34577\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34577\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Pluto_and_charon_HST_1994.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Pluto_and_charon_HST_1994.jpg\" alt=\"Pluto from Hubble picture\" width=\"320\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Pluto_and_charon_HST_1994.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Pluto_and_charon_HST_1994-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 85vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pluto and its moon, Charon, as revealed by NASA&#8217;s Hubble Space Telescope in 1994<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On July 14, 2015 05:49 MDT, the New Horizons spacecraft flew 12,600\u00a0km (7,800\u00a0mi) from the surface of Pluto, taking more pictures and gathering more sensor data.\u00a0 In the next few days and weeks, this data will be sent back to earth, providing even better pictures of Pluto, up to 10 times the resolution of the picture sent just a day before now.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the New Horizons team for the success of their mission that began January 8, 2001.\u00a0 I hope it continues generating new discoveries far into the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Horizons, an interplanetary space probe that was launched on January 19, 2006, passed by the dwarf planet, Pluto and took the best pictures to date of the distant plutoid.\u00a0 Yesterday, New Horizons sent back the following picture of Pluto. The best picture previous to New Horizons was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/2015\/07\/new-horizons-phoned-home-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Horizons phoned home today!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[19,20],"class_list":["post-34575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-technology","tag-nasa","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34578,"href":"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34575\/revisions\/34578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.counterchange.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}