{"id":16183,"date":"2015-07-15T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasa-to-release-new-pluto-images\/"},"modified":"2015-07-15T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T12:05:00","slug":"nasa-to-release-new-pluto-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasa-to-release-new-pluto-images\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA to release new Pluto images"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7746\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7746\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7746\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19536043009_08b6e6dc54_z.jpg\" alt=\"New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern reacts to fresh imagery of Pluto downlinked Wednesday. Credit: NASA\/Bill Ingalls\" width=\"640\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19536043009_08b6e6dc54_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19536043009_08b6e6dc54_z-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern reacts to fresh imagery of Pluto downlinked Wednesday. Credit: NASA\/Bill Ingalls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Scientists are crunching data for a press conference Wednesday, and there is high anticipation for the release of the first close-up images from Tuesday\u2019s historic flyby of Pluto.<\/p>\n<p>The last image returned by New Horizons came to Earth late Monday, showing a full global view of Pluto\u2019s day side from a range of 476,000 miles. New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern says the images available Wednesday will be 10 times better.<\/p>\n<p>Telemetry downlinked from New Horizons indicate the probe collected all the data it was programmed to gather, according to Chris Hersman, mission systems engineer at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>Among the data expected to arrive on Earth earlier Wednesday were color and black-and-white images, temperature measurements, and initial spectral data on the composition of Pluto\u2019s atmosphere. Here is the full list provided by New Horizons project scientist Hal Weaver:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Pluto stereo footprints (3) at 0.24 miles\/pixel<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Charon photo at 1.4 miles\/pixel<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Hydra photo at 2.0 miles\/pixel<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Nix photo at 1.8 miles\/pixel<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Pluto occultation count rates<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Radio Science Experiment temperature measurements of Pluto\u2019s night side<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Alice airglow spectra<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>SWAP data on solar wind-atmospheric interaction<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>PEPSSI data on pickup of molecules from Pluto\u2019s atmosphere<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jim Green, head of NASA\u2019s planetary science division, is excited about Wednesday\u2019s Pluto data dump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s my other red planet,\u201d Green said. \u201cIt\u2019s not all about Mars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy big interest would be the composition of what they\u2019re seeing, the ices, more of the atmosphere, how extensive is the atmosphere, did they find any haze?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow you\u2019re getting down into the physics, even though the images are going to be stunning and exciting,\u201d Green said. \u201cYou don\u2019t want to miss it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern reacts to fresh imagery of Pluto downlinked Wednesday. Credit: NASA\/Bill Ingalls Scientists are crunching data for a press conference Wednesday, and there is high anticipation for the release of the first close-up images from Tuesday\u2019s historic flyby of Pluto. The last image returned by New Horizons came to Earth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2174,2848],"class_list":["post-16183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-new-horizons","tag-pluto"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}