{"id":881,"date":"2015-02-07T19:52:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T19:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/?p=881"},"modified":"2015-02-07T19:54:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T19:54:36","slug":"pluto-and-minecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/?p=881","title":{"rendered":"Pluto and Minecraft?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Space\u00a0probe\u00a0LORRI was launched in 2006. She flew by Jupiter in 2007 and has spent the past 8 years\u00a0in hibernation mode on her way to Pluto. Looks to me like she has spent part of that time playing Minecraft!
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NASA’s New Horizons has returned its first images of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, since the mission entered into the countdown phase of its historic mission. Taken at a distance of 126 million miles (200 million km), it will pale in comparison to the images expected over the coming months.<\/p>\n

The images were snapped by New Horizons’ telescopic Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager<\/strong> (LORRI) late last month. The spacecraft will make its closest approach on July 14th.<\/p>\n

“Pluto is finally becoming more than just a pinpoint of light,” noted New Horizons team member Hal Weaver in a statement. “LORRI has now resolved Pluto, and the dwarf planet will continue to grow larger and larger in the images as New Horizons spacecraft hurtles toward its targets.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

http:\/\/io9.com\/our-first-grainy-glimpse-of-pluto-and-charon-as-new-hor-1683929152<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is an artist’s conception of what LORRI will look like when she reaches Pluto.<\/p>\n

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The above illustration and other information about LORRI found here:
\nhttp:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Horizons<\/a><\/p>\n

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Space\u00a0probe\u00a0LORRI was launched in 2006. She flew by Jupiter in 2007 and has spent the past 8 years\u00a0in hibernation mode on her way to Pluto. Looks to me like she has spent part of that time playing Minecraft!   NASA’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}