New Horizons

[winged]

Are those the only high-res shots we'll get, or will we eventually get the entire hemisphere?

Only those squares.

[regex]

Only those squares.

Those squares were the entire point of the mission.

[Starwhip]

Conference is live!

[regex]

"security will escort you to Area 51."

[Robotengineer]

"security will escort you to Area 51."

That Earth image he showed was fake man...

[Starwhip]

He did put that one in sideways, BTW.

[Robotengineer]

Hydra! Charon has been active!

[Mau]

Charon, active?

[LittleBlueGaming]

He did put that one in sideways, BTW.

It's awesome to get so much humor from NASA.

Charon's been active?

[RocketPilot573]

Charon is active?

[Kerbart]

Those squares were the entire point of the mission.

But that's only a fraction of the hemisphere and not the most exciting part either; about 20% of the area seems to be a featureless dust plateau. Why did they decide to only photograph those? not enough time for the entire planet face?

[Robotengineer]

Hydra is a Minecraft leg of lamb stomach!

Edited July 15, 2015 by Robotengineer

[winged]

[Mau]

Water ice on Hydra!

Edited August 29, 2015 by Mau

[RocketPilot573]

Hydra made of water ice.... Maybe we can mine it?

[ElWanderer]

Hail pixelated Hydra! Will there be anything more detailed in the full dataset (I'm watching with the sound off)?

[regex]

But that's only a fraction of the hemisphere and not the most exciting part either; about 20% of the area seems to be a featureless dust plateau. Why did they decide to only photograph those? not enough time for the entire planet face?

That was a joke.

Those are the ones slated to be shown at the press conference, I assume. The rest will probably be released over the next 16 months as the data gets dumped.

[Starwhip]

Whoah, look at Charon!

[LittleBlueGaming]

Beautiful new image of Charon

[winged]

[Robotengineer]

Dark region is Mordor. (unofficial)

[Starwhip]

http://i.imgur.com/k8u6gBT.jpg

That's definitely not full resolution, it's way way better on the television.

[LittleBlueGaming]

That's definitely not full resolution, it's way way better on the television.

Yeah, a screenshot isn't going to be nearly as good.

Here we go!

[Robotengineer]

Heart/dog face named after Clyde Tombaugh.

[Starwhip]

Holy crap that has a lot of resolution!