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in #science7 years ago (edited)

Of the most distant object ever explored via space probe - Ultima Thule

And these pictures tell a lot - but raise even more questions. What are the big circular marks, are those craters, sublimation pits or something else etc.

Two blobs frozen together in time from the veritable dawn of this solar system and now we have pictures of them as a single contact binary.

There is even an animation available.

New Horizons is nearly 4.13 billion miles (6.64 billion kilometers) from Earth; at that distance, radio signals, traveling at light speed, reach the large antennas of NASA’s Deep Space Network six hours and nine minutes after New Horizons sends them.

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It is beyond my understanding that there can be such resolution, or is the "computer" just smoothing it out?

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