Where is New Horizons now? Online monitoring
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The team of administrators of the main astronomical and space communities on VKontakte has created a website for online monitoring of the AMC flight “New Horizons” to Pluto and Charon.
Site Address: whereispluto.info
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Brief information about AMC:
July 14, 2015 at 11:49:57 UTC AMC “New Horizons” will fly Pluto at a distance of 12,500 km from its surface, the device will fly from Charon at a distance of 28,800 km. The maximum resolution with which the surface of the planet will be shot will reach 50 meters per pixel. The finished pictures will come to Earth in about a day, because transfer, for example, 1 megabyte of information from the orbit of Pluto takes more than 3 hours (the transfer rate is 768 bps, data is transmitted via a protocol similar to TCP). After a day or two, the pictures will be put in open access to the mission gallery . Those. We will see the first images of the surface in maximum resolution not earlier than July 16.
Color images are obtained using Ralph color cameras (resolution up to 250 meters per pixel), high-resolution black and white images (up to 50 meters per pixel or 1 second of arc) using the LORRI telescope. Therefore, it will take even longer to wait for color images of the surface, since the transfer of color images will take several times longer than the first b / w images. Their processing and superimposing on b / w images to create “color” images of Pluto in high resolution will require from the mission team some more time, thus, at best, detailed color images of the surface of Pluto in high resolution will be seen closer to the end of July .
A FAQ is available on our website, which covers most of the questions about the flight path, the speed and future perspective of the mission. Information published on the site is taken from official sources.
The team of administrators of the main astronomical and space communities on VKontakte has created a website for online monitoring of the AMC flight “New Horizons” to Pluto and Charon.
Site Address: whereispluto.info
')
Brief information about AMC:
July 14, 2015 at 11:49:57 UTC AMC “New Horizons” will fly Pluto at a distance of 12,500 km from its surface, the device will fly from Charon at a distance of 28,800 km. The maximum resolution with which the surface of the planet will be shot will reach 50 meters per pixel. The finished pictures will come to Earth in about a day, because transfer, for example, 1 megabyte of information from the orbit of Pluto takes more than 3 hours (the transfer rate is 768 bps, data is transmitted via a protocol similar to TCP). After a day or two, the pictures will be put in open access to the mission gallery . Those. We will see the first images of the surface in maximum resolution not earlier than July 16.
Color images are obtained using Ralph color cameras (resolution up to 250 meters per pixel), high-resolution black and white images (up to 50 meters per pixel or 1 second of arc) using the LORRI telescope. Therefore, it will take even longer to wait for color images of the surface, since the transfer of color images will take several times longer than the first b / w images. Their processing and superimposing on b / w images to create “color” images of Pluto in high resolution will require from the mission team some more time, thus, at best, detailed color images of the surface of Pluto in high resolution will be seen closer to the end of July .
A FAQ is available on our website, which covers most of the questions about the flight path, the speed and future perspective of the mission. Information published on the site is taken from official sources.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/365773/
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