TIS#041 07/16/15 From the Deep Dark of the Third Zone - a podcast by Alex G. Orphanos, Science Communicator

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WEEKLY UPDATE/

LIGHTNING ROUND

On this week's episode, Alex talks about the crazy first week after the single was released & Sara comes on to give a live first reaction to the newest Pluto/Charon pictures from New Horizons.

Alex also has a new "Lightning Round" for what's new in Space this week! Check it out at the end of the episode

Congratulations to the whole New Horizons team, NASA & to the American Space Program for such an amazing and successful mission that has only begun to amaze us!

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PICTURES FROM THE THIRD ZONE

Pluto & Charon in a Portrait just before New Horizons' final approach. July 11,

Pluto & Charon in a Portrait just before New Horizons' final approach. July 11, "showing high-resolution black-and-white LORRI images colorized with Ralph data collected from the last rotation of Pluto."
Image credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI

PLUTO

PLUTO "taken on July 13, 2015 when the spacecraft was 476,000 miles (768,000 kilometers) from the surface"
Image Credit: NASA/APL/SwRI

CHARON

CHARON "taken at approximately 6:30 a.m. EDT (10:30 UTC) on July 14, 2015, about 1.5 hours before closest approach to Pluto, from a range of 49,000 miles (79,000 kilometers)."
Image Credit: NASA-JHUAPL-SwRI

PLUTO - Up close & Personal

PLUTO - Up close & Personal
"The close-up image was taken about 1.5 hours before New Horizons closest approach to Pluto, when the craft was 47,800 miles (77,000 kilometers) from the surface of the planet."
Image Credit: NASA-JHUAPL-SwRI

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