#ultima thule
Happy New Year fellow space lovers!
Earth has just completed another revolution around the Sun and New Horizons probe has just made a flyby of Ultima Thule (486958) 2014 MU69,a distant Kuiper Belt Object. While we’re all waiting for close up photos, I’m working on a something special for that occasion. Not sure yet when it’ll be ready, but really wanted to share this little teaser with you, hope you like it!
You can also find it on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6i4u5jdkJk
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New Horizons: 2014 MU69 from ~500,000 miles, one of the highest-resolution images sent back prior to the flyby. Released at a JHUAPL press conference that just wrapped up a few minutes ago. Some better images should be coming down in the next few days. Then we take a nice break for solar conjunction, because of course that would have to happen now, and the tasty download goodness should resume after that.
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New Horizons: A first photo showing 2014 MU69 (“Ultima Thule”) as a multi-pixeled object. Closest approach is in a few hours, and then photos will trickle back to the Earth over the next 20 months or so, though hopefully they’ll send back the best ones first.
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Tonight the river is at work dissolving, solving
over and over the riddle of its loosening.
I want to know how to hear it, and what it might teach me:
how to inhabit this thing of bone, gut, and blood,
this part of me that would not vanish if I vanished.
Davis McCombs, from “The River and Under the River” in Ultima Thule
