The Final Images We Will Ever See of Pluto and Arrokoth
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Published 2022-06-08
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0:00 Intro
1:00 Pluto
18:19 Arrokoth
28:38 Outro
All Comments (21)
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Hi Everyone! Here is the next supercut as requested. This is three New Horizons episodes merged into one. I put a lot of effort into making this feel like one episode so I hope it was worth it to you! If you enjoyed that, have that feeling of outer space in your room with this Floating Moon Lamp www.encalife.com/pages/_go_/floating-moon-lamp?ref…
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Born too late to explore the world. Born to early to explore universe. Born just in time to appreciate pictures of cool, faraway rocks.
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Makes you realize that we're still in the stone age of space travel, literally just hurling cameras into space with extreme precision because sending a ship that could actually maneuver and turn around is still completely unfeasible
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I remember learning that Pluto was a blue little speck. It's so amazing to finally see it with my own eyes. Astronomy invokes some sort of emotion that you can't really find anywhere else. And I love it.
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For reference, New Horizons in total cost about $780.6 million. For comparison, the Burj Khalifa (tallest skyscraper in the world) cost about $1.5 billion. So for the cost of one skyscraper, you could fund New Horizons nearly twice over. I never want to hear people complain about how inefficient NASA is again.
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It's so wholesome to think that we engineered such precise and advanced crafts just to do basically the same things we did as kids, looking at strange rocks. This is the most human thing ever.
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When i was a kid, in science books in school, pluto was always depicted as being a blue icy looking planet. crazy how vastly different it actually looks.
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The fact that even Pluto has 5 moons is pretty mind boggling, and amazing at the same time.
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I am 63 year's old. This is the most fascinating video, I have ever seen. When I was young. I had always wondered what Pluto looks liked. Beautiful and wondrous ❤. It's a privilege to see Pluto in my generation because the generation before me, always wondered what Pluto looked like. The Moon, Mars and Saturn is nothing in comparison to Pluto ❤.
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Pluto is something I've always wanted to see as a kid. All the times I was school (when it was called a planet), it was always shown as a blurred colorful circle. But, now, seeing what it ACTUALLY is, it's crazy how vastly different from the older images.
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As someone who was born in the early 80's and who's been a space enthusiast my entire life, there's two events that I'll never forget, and were (and still are) the stuff of amazement, daydreams and wonderment: Cassini-Huygen's arrival to the surface of Titan, and New Horizon's arrival to Pluto. Arrokoth was the icing on the cake.
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I’ve also loved Pluto and never thought I’d get to see what it looked like. I always felt bad for Pluto too, like it was the underdog and forgotten. When I saw the heart, it made me emotional. It was as if Pluto was saying, “Hi there. Thanks for not giving up on me.” 🖤
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Does anyone remember Pluto being depicted as a dusty blue planet(mostly in books/kids shows)? Seeing that it's a white/ivory and rusty red is incredible! And that heart on the side! It looks so cool in the rotation phtos😍👌
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The thing that boggles my mind is that there is just so much to explore in our small solar system just by itself. Imagine the variety of stuff there is out there in our galaxy, let alone the entire known universe. Thanks Alex, great channel as always.
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Pluto and Charon have such a romantic existence, its incredible. And for New Horizons to come across Arrokoth which seems almost like a potential promise and dream for the dwarf and moon in the same journey is just so so wonderful!
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The fact that New Horizons can send pictures to us, even though it’s a 9 year journey away, just makes my head go 🤯🤯🤯🤯 So fascinating.
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There's something just so tragically romantic about Pluto and Charon. From the barycenter splitting the distance between them, to them being tidally locked, to Pluto's hidden "heart:" it's the stuff of poetry!!
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It's amazing that a probe can travel over 36,000 mph for nearly 10 years in space and never collide with anything.
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Nothing in the universe has ever laid eyes on this world before. What a mindblowing concept. We live in the age where we can experience this.
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Fun fact: It is true that most planets are not tidally locked to their moons. This is different for Pluto and Charon based on Distance, mass ratios etc. But earth is actually on its way to become tidally locked to the earth moon. The planet is very very very slowly decelerating in terms of rotation, while the moon uses this energy to increase the distance of the 2. One day the day will be as long as the moon cycle and the earth will have reached a stable state where it is tidally locked to the moon as well.
