7/14/2015, 9:36 pm
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Amidst cheers, whoops and flag waving that broke out at Nasa's New Horizons control center as scientists celebrated the spacecraft's dramatic flyby of Pluto, there also was some confusion after the closeups of some enlarged photos made by the spacecraft revealed unexpected developments.
This historic achievement for the US, which can now claim to be the only nation to have visited every planet in the classical solar system, was somehow soured by pictures of what can only be identified as concerned citizens of Pluto coming out in droves to protest the U.S. government's surveillance drone that was approaching their home planetoid.
"Citizens of Pluto object to U.S. government's surveillance of their planetoid and its moons with New Horizons space drone!" said one of the placards which they pointed directly at the space camera located some thousands of miles away.
John Grunsfeld, head of Nasa's science mission directorate, said that images beamed back from New Horizons on its approach showed Pluto to be an "extraordinarily interesting and complex world."
Special thanks to Armenian Radio for the tip.
Amidst cheers, whoops and flag waving that broke out at Nasa's New Horizons control center as scientists celebrated the spacecraft's dramatic flyby of Pluto, there also was some confusion after the closeups of some enlarged photos made by the spacecraft revealed unexpected developments.
This historic achievement for the US, which can now claim to be the only nation to have visited every planet in the classical solar system, was somehow soured by pictures of what can only be identified as concerned citizens of Pluto coming out in droves to protest the U.S. government's surveillance drone that was approaching their home planetoid.
"Citizens of Pluto object to U.S. government's surveillance of their planetoid and its moons with New Horizons space drone!" said one of the placards which they pointed directly at the space camera located some thousands of miles away.
John Grunsfeld, head of Nasa's science mission directorate, said that images beamed back from New Horizons on its approach showed Pluto to be an "extraordinarily interesting and complex world."
Special thanks to Armenian Radio for the tip.
