New Horizons is go!!! Launch was at 2:00 P.M. EST and boy was it moving! There goes the fastest rocket ever launched.
Next stop, Pluto... well ok, Jupiter for a gravity assist slingshot, then Pluto.
So, now we just have to wait 9 years to finally get some good pictures of Pluto. (And I imagine, some nice ones of Jupiter on the way by...)
For more information, check out NASA's site.
Posted by GEBIV at January 19, 2006 02:26 PM | TrackBackGet a snowball and photograph it against a black background. That's what we'll see of Pluto in 9 years' time.
Our tax dollars at work...
Posted by: barry at January 21, 2006 03:59 AM