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Pluto Flyover from New Horizons

by dxs on 5/18/25, 3:50 PM with 16 comments

  • by jauntywundrkind on 5/18/25, 4:07 PM

    Amazing video. But do note,

    > Images from this spectacular passage have been color enhanced, vertically scaled, and digitally combined

    I was quite surprised at the height of various features. Turns out yeah Pluto's not actually that wildly mountainous.

  • by calmbell on 5/18/25, 5:53 PM

    I highly recommend the book Chasing New Horizons to learn more about the New Horizons mission.
  • by behnamoh on 5/18/25, 4:32 PM

    I wish the video editing was done at Hollywood because damn it they have great CGI. I want an immersive experience with these space videos, and as soon as I notice low-quality simulated mountains/etc., the whole experience goes away.
  • by BurningFrog on 5/18/25, 5:33 PM

    Pluto is 40x further from the sun than Earth.

    That means it gets 1/1600 (0.06%) as much sunlight as us.

    I know the eye can adapt a lot to low light, but I doubt Pluto would look anywhere as bright to a human traveller as the video shows.

  • by derbOac on 5/19/25, 3:52 AM

    It's amazing to me that we're capable of flying a craft anywhere near that close to something that size that far away.
  • by gitroom on 5/18/25, 6:31 PM

    man i could spend hours just watching stuff like this - pluto doesn't even feel real to me half the time. ever catch yourself wondering if we'll ever just get to walk around a world like that for real?
  • by jmclnx on 5/18/25, 4:06 PM

    I am getting timeouts for the NASA Site, that never happened to me before. I guess DOGE strikes again :(