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I mean how long it will take to transmit and release them after they were taken. Afaik the datarate on this distance is realy poor...

From this blog entry from Emily Lakdawalla:

Sunday, July 12 19:40 UT / 15:40 ET / 12:40 PT: 7hr 5m downlink: Final optical navigation images

3 LORRIs of Pluto at 13 km/pix (~185 pixels across disk)

2 LORRIs of Charon at 13 km/pix (~92 pixels across disk)

Monday, July 13 at 16:25 UT / 12:25 ET / 09:25 ET: 3hr 30m downlink: Fail Safe D

LORRI Charon at 7.2 km/pix (~170 pixels across disk). Taken 2015-07-13 06:36:57. Range 1.461 million km.

MVIC Pluto and Charon color at 28 km/pix (~86 and ~43 pixels across disk). Taken 2015-07-13 07:37:55. Range 1.406 & 1.418 million km. .- Can be used to colorize LORRI Charon image in same downlink; less good for colorizing later Pluto image because of 12.5-hour time difference, during which Pluto will rotate about 30 degrees

Tuesday, July 14 at 03:15 UT / Monday, July 13 at 23:15 ET / 20:15 PT: 52m downlink: E-Health 1

LORRI Pluto at 3.9 kilometers per pixel (~620 pixels across disk). Taken 2015-07-13 20:17:28. Range 768,000 km. - The best single-frame photo of Pluto that will be available during encounter period

Wednesday, July 15 at 10:00 UT / 07:00 ET / 04:00 PT: 1hr 29m downlink: First Look A

LORRI Charon at 2.3 km/pix (~520 pixels across disk). Taken 2015-07-14 02:41:49. Range 466,000 km. - The best single-frame photo of Charon that will be available during encounter period

LORRI Pluto at 4.0 km/pix (~600 pixels across disk). Taken 2015-07-13 20:02:43. Range 778,000 km. - Will make a stereo view with the one downlinked in E-Health 1

LORRI Hydra at 3.2 km/pix (~25 pixels across disk). Taken 2015-07-13 23:16:11. Range 645,000 km.

Wednesday, July 15 at 19:25 UT / 15:25 ET / 12:25 PT: 6hr 54m downlink: First Look B

LORRI Nix at 3.0 km/pix (~35 pixels across disk). Taken 2015-07-13 23:19:16. Range 590,000 km. - The best photo of Nix that will be available during encounter period; LORRI's best will be 10 times higher-resolution

3 frames on Pluto from high-resolution LORRI mosaic at 0.4 km/pix (Pluto will fill all 3 frames, each frame ~410 km wide). Taken 2015-07-14 10:10:15. Range 77,000 km. - The highest-resolution images of Pluto that will be available during encounter period

Thursday, July 16 at 07:24 UT / 03:24 ET / 00:24 PT: 1hr 52m downlink: First Look D

3 frames on Charon from high-resolution LORRI mosaic at 0.38 km/pix (Charon will fill frame, each frame ~390 km wide). Taken 2015-07-14 10:23:47. Range 79,000 km. - The highest-resolution images of Charon that will be available during encounter period

Thursday, July 16 at 13:23 UT / 09:23 ET / 06:23 PT: 4hr 15m downlink: First Look E

MVIC Pluto and Charon color at 4.9 km/pix (~490 and ~245 pixels across disks). Taken 2015-07-14 06:49:08. Range 254,000 and 269,000 km. - Color portrait of Pluto & Charon in same image

Friday, July 17 at 16:33 UT / 12:33 ET / 09:33 UT: 3hr 15m downlink: High Priority A

LORRI Hydra at 1.1 km/pix (~74 pixels across disk). Taken 2015-07-14 07:39:28. Range 231,000 km. - The best-resolution well-lit photo of Hydra in the data set (there will be a higher-resolution one taken of a crescent Hydra)

1 frame on Pluto from 2x2 LORRI mosaic at 2.2 km/pix. Taken 2015-07-14 02:49:47. Range 444,000 km. - Will show Pluto filling a corner of image

Saturday, July 18 at 10:30 UT / 06:30 ET / 03:30 PT: 4hr 36m downlink: High Priority B

LORRI Pluto at 1.8 km/pix (Pluto will fill frame). Taken 2015-07-14 19:06:24. Range 360,000 km. - A departure crescent shot of Pluto

MVIC Nix color at 3.1 km/pix (~34 pixels across disk). Taken 2015-07-14 08:02:39. Range 165,000 km. - The best color image of Nix that will be available during encounter period; may be used for stereo with image returned in First Look B

Monday, July 20 at 16:03 UT / 12:03 ET / 09:03 PT: 3hr 15m downlink: High Priority G

4 frames on Pluto from high-resolution LORRI mosaic at 0.4 km/pix (Pluto will fill all 4 frames, each frame ~410 km wide). Taken 2015-07-14 10:10:15. Range 77,000 km. - Adds to high-resolution mosaic that began downlinking Wednesday in First Look B

I took out everything but MVIC and LORRI data. Obviously these are just the encounter highlights, all the images will take several months to be downloaded.

If you're interested in a more detailed look at the observations sets, this PDF from NASA is very in depth.

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Frida Space, I like your encounter infographic, the layout is clean and I began to clearly understand the encounter. One thing that impresses again and again, is the speed at which all of this will happen.

I have an idea for adding a timeline, that might visually highlight this.

What I've linked is a rough sketch. (Lines could be routed around your text boxes.) If you like the general idea, it would benefit from being reworked and polished with your own tools. An additional scale below it, showing distance traveled in this time, might also be nice. (I had an alternate idea for a watch-face style of timeline, to be placed in the lower right, but I didn't sketch it. Routing lines around a circular object might be too chaotic, and the linear timeline idea is already adding more complication to the infographic, than you might feel is appropriate.)

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No. Due to restrictions on moving parts due to long mission duration and harsh environment, the main camera only has blue, red, near IR, and a narrowband IR filter set tuned for detecting methane.

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What, like another dwarf planet hit it and made Charon?

Yes, the Pluto-Charon system is strongly believed to have formed this way (with a big collision), just like the Earth-Moon system. Studying this aspect of Pluto to then compare it with Earth-Moon is one of the main objectives of New Horizons.

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it looks like there is a huge crater in the southern region. kind of like a slice of the body was cleaved away.

That's just a deconvolution error. Pluto is actually spherical. There is nothing missing, it's just a processing artifact.

A full rotation:

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I'm sure they'll be able to create a true-color "photo" from what they get.

Can't get true colour without a green filter. Unless you're deuteranopoic colour blind, anyway.

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In case anyone missed it

*DIE SUCKY YOUTUBE CAPTIONING!*

*FIRES MACHINEGUN INTO IT*

*walks away grumbling*..........

Really though, I'm hard of hearing, can't they (whether whoever made the film or youtube) provide reliable captioning??? :P

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