Wait, no, it's a snowman. Either that, or two ginger cookies that ended up baked together... but nah, snowman. It's probably made of mostly ice anyway.
Better pictures will be out in a couple weeks. NH will be behind the Sun for a few days this week, so not too much data right away.
And then, onto... somewhere. New Horizons has a lot of fuel left, it's more a problem of nowhere to go. See the link in my last post to how annoying it is to find faint new asteroids against all of the stars in the galaxy. It's so distant that NH might have to use its onboard LORRI imager and image processing to look for its own destination.
Better pictures will be out in a couple weeks. NH will be behind the Sun for a few days this week, so not too much data right away.
And then, onto... somewhere. New Horizons has a lot of fuel left, it's more a problem of nowhere to go. See the link in my last post to how annoying it is to find faint new asteroids against all of the stars in the galaxy. It's so distant that NH might have to use its onboard LORRI imager and image processing to look for its own destination.
"Kitto daijoubu da yo." - Sakura Kinomoto