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New Image Shows Charon’s Chasms and Craters
“New Horizons’ newest images reveal Pluto’s largest moon Charon to be a world of chasms and craters. The most pronounced chasm, which lies in the southern hemisphere, is longer and miles deeper than Earth’s Grand Canyon, according to William McKinnon, deputy lead scientist with New Horizon’s Geology and Geophysics investigation team.”
Biologist, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Biologist and Payload integrator, Editor of NASAWatch.com and Astrobiology.com, Lapsed climber, Explorer, Synaesthete, Former Challenger Center board member... More by Keith Cowing
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Missions like these show NASA at its best.
To a few like me, and you, but to the general population? I have my doubts.
“How much did that cost? Really? It’s just another damn rock!”
The news just came on as I write this. No mention of New Horizons. Lots of talk about the political horserace- nothing about issues, as usual, just who is winning, who’s gaffe is the latest.
New Horizons won’t catch public interest. Alas.
I hear there’s a new iPhone coming out…
that’s sadly true and funny at the same time.
I know allot of people on her bash fox news and republicans as being anti-science. But so far fox news is the only web site that has this as the lead story. At least as of 8:15 this morning.
It’s on the NY Times home web page albeit below some of the political stuff.
You mean that same NY Times that called Robert Goddard a fool for thinking that rockets could work in a vacuum then failed to print a retraction until Apollo 11 landed on the moon?
Sorry, that trash tabloid permanently established its reputation for scientific illiteracy generations ago. If they told me the sky is blue, I’d double check their sources and look for independent confirmation.
Good to know.
There’s plenty of coverage in the UK media, it’s on of the ‘headlines’ in the BBC news
Provided you didn’t watch the flyby via NASA TV.
About an hour ago Google published a Doodle for the flyby. Be sure to click the play button to initiate the flyby.