Pluto | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Thu, 21 Jan 2016 12:24:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png Pluto | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 There might be nine planets in our solar system after all https://www.kitguru.net/channel/science/jon-martindale/there-might-be-nine-planets-in-our-solar-system-after-all/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/science/jon-martindale/there-might-be-nine-planets-in-our-solar-system-after-all/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:44:17 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=281639 No Pluto, it's not you. Go back to being the marvel of our recent far-flung photographic efforts. Astronomers do think there might be a ninth planet in our solar system though, but way beyond even the bounds of our dwarf-planet friend. We haven't seen it yet, but evidence in the Kuiper Belt suggests that a …

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No Pluto, it's not you. Go back to being the marvel of our recent far-flung photographic efforts. Astronomers do think there might be a ninth planet in our solar system though, but way beyond even the bounds of our dwarf-planet friend. We haven't seen it yet, but evidence in the Kuiper Belt suggests that a world 10 times the mass of the Earth could pass through a highly elliptical, 20,000 year orbit.

The hint of the very distant world was discovered by the California Institute of Technology, which finds the alignment of several bodies within the Kuiper Belt rather suspect. The Sedna and 2012 VP113 minor and dwarf planets are lined up in a fashion that suggests they are being influenced by the gravity of a much larger body, somewhere out there.

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Source: Caltech

“The most distant objects all swing out in one direction in a very strange way that shouldn't happen, and we realised the only way we could get them to swing in one direction is if there is a massive planet, also very distant in the Solar System, keeping them in place while they all go around the Sun,” said astronomer Dr. Mike Brown (via BBC).

This of course isn't the first (or likely the last) time that someone has suggested there may be another planet beyond the bounds of our currently named worlds. This is the most promising evidence so far though and many astronomers will now be swinging their telescope to a certain spot in the sky where it is thought likely to be, to try and catch an elusive glimpse of it.

Brown too has a history of finding far-flung objects. He was part of the team that helped downgrade Pluto after the discovery of dwarf-planet Eris in 2005.

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KitGuru Says: Goddamit. I'd just gotten used to the idea of eight planets and now it might change again? Space is so inconvenient sometimes.

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Pluto is much more active than scientists thought https://www.kitguru.net/channel/science/jon-martindale/pluto-is-much-more-active-than-scientists-thought/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/science/jon-martindale/pluto-is-much-more-active-than-scientists-thought/#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2015 10:47:51 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=259740 Following the New Horizons flyby of Pluto last week, data has been trickling in and showing us things about the dwarf planet we never knew before and it turns out we wrong about a lot of things. So much so in-fact that scientists that studied the far flung object have admitted that they were totally …

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Following the New Horizons flyby of Pluto last week, data has been trickling in and showing us things about the dwarf planet we never knew before and it turns out we wrong about a lot of things. So much so in-fact that scientists that studied the far flung object have admitted that they were totally wrong in painting Pluto as an inert ball of ice and rock. In-fact, it's very active.

Early photos that have returned from the edges of our solar system showed tall ice mountains, possible volcanoes, and vast, crater-free planes, suggesting that it was a surface that had been created – in the cosmic sense – quite recently. That in turn should mean that Pluto is geologically active, something that wasn't thought possible without the gravitational pull from a much larger planet.

With evidence pointing in this direction, the hunt is now on to figure out what it is that makes this internal activity possible. Energy is required, which may come from a radioactive core. That in turn could generate heat, enough of which could melt sub-surface ice and send it flowing towards the surface in icy volcanoes.

Chances are it wouldn't stay liquid on the surface however, since it reaches temperatures as low as -230 degrees Celsius; cold enough for there to be frozen nitrogen and methane.

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It's also thought likely that Pluto has carbon monoxide gas in the Tombaugh region

More surprising than this however, is that Pluto's even smaller moon, Charon, also shows sign of geological activity. Much like Pluto, scientists will be studying images and data recorded by New Horizons about Charon over the coming months and years. While a gigabit of data has so far been returned, according to the Independent, more than 49 gigabits are still be transmitted. It's expected that due to the distance between Earth and New Horizons, it will take the better part of 16 months to retrieve it all.

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KitGuru Says: It's amazing that until this past week, our only view of Pluto was a few pixels across from fuzzy Hubble imagery. Now we have pictures that show us the minutia of its surface. It's fascinating stuff.

Image source: NASA

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New Horizons Pluto update, new images, more coming today https://www.kitguru.net/channel/science/jon-martindale/new-horizons-pluto-update-new-images-more-coming-today/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/science/jon-martindale/new-horizons-pluto-update-new-images-more-coming-today/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2015 11:31:53 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=259498 It's already been a few days since the New Horizons space craft made its historic flyby of the furthest flung planetary entity the human race has ever visited: Pluto. It took some awe inspiring images, the first of which we've begun to get our first look at, but there is so much more to come. …

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It's already been a few days since the New Horizons space craft made its historic flyby of the furthest flung planetary entity the human race has ever visited: Pluto. It took some awe inspiring images, the first of which we've begun to get our first look at, but there is so much more to come. Take for example the recent image of Pluto's moon Charon up close and personal, and the new break down of everything Pluto by a member of the New Horizons team.

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Charon is the largest moon in the Plutonian system and it has some unique features which we're only just beginning to learn about, as this is by far the best view we've ever had of the far flung stellar body. Like the large depression in the upper left which has a peak in its middle.

The much closer image of the moon's surface was taken about an hour and a half before New Horizon's closest approach with Pluto, at a distance of just 49,000 miles. The picture is noteworthy for its craters, which was something that was missing from several parts of Pluto, which suggested geological activity; something the was considered very unlikely until these images started appearing.

One of the most compelling images that's showed up in the last few hours however has been the 3D creation of the original ice mountain image released of Pluto. It's not entirely accurate, as it was made using photoclinometry to estimate heights based on light and shadow.

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Amy Shira Teitel of the New Horizons team also gives us an exciting breakdown of Pluto in just over a minute, explaining much of what we know and have recently learned about the dwarf planet.

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More Pluto and New Horizons news is expected later, with a NASA press conference taking place at 1PM EDT (5PM GMT).

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KitGuru Says: There's nothing quite like space exploration to make you feel part of the human race, rather than a member of a local community or nation. We're all striving for this sort of stuff together. Or at least we should be.

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New Horizons shows first close up image of Pluto’s ice mountains https://www.kitguru.net/channel/science/jon-martindale/new-horizons-shows-first-close-up-image-of-plutos-ice-mountains/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/science/jon-martindale/new-horizons-shows-first-close-up-image-of-plutos-ice-mountains/#respond Thu, 16 Jul 2015 08:03:53 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=259285 It's been nine and a half long years since the original launch of the New Horizons, nearly fifteen years since its conception and almost 100 years since we originally discovered its target (dwarf) planet, Pluto. But finally, after so long in the murky depths of our imaginations, we're finally getting a close up view of …

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It's been nine and a half long years since the original launch of the New Horizons, nearly fifteen years since its conception and almost 100 years since we originally discovered its target (dwarf) planet, Pluto. But finally, after so long in the murky depths of our imaginations, we're finally getting a close up view of what the far flung world looks like and it turns out that it has ice mountains.

While the images from New Horizon's recent flyby of Pluto will take as long as 16 months to send us back all of the data and images collected, we had the first one through in the early hours of this morning. It represents a small segment of Pluto's surface, but clearly shows mountainous areas which we believe are made of ice.

The fact that they cast such long shadows suggest that some are as high as 11,000 feet, just over a third of the height of mount Everest.

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More inticing though are the flat plane areas. The fact that they aren't dotted with craters like would be expected, suggests that those areas are young in the cosmic sense, possible less than 100 million years old, which could suggest some form of tectonic activity. If true, scientists would love to figure out how, since it was believed that Pluto would require the nearby influence of a much larger planet to stimulate its core with such energy.

What's really exciting however, is that as detailed as this image is, it was taken when New Horizons was a full 47,800 miles from the dwarf planet's surface. It eventually approached as close as 7,800 miles, so those images should be spectacular.

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KitGuru Says: It's great to see such successes as this, especially considering some of the failings of launching into LEO that we've seen over the past 10 months or so. 

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New Horizons confirms Pluto is bigger than we thought https://www.kitguru.net/channel/science/jon-martindale/new-horizons-confirms-pluto-is-bigger-than-we-thought/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/science/jon-martindale/new-horizons-confirms-pluto-is-bigger-than-we-thought/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2015 08:08:15 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=258831 Poor Pluto. Once part of the collective of nine planets that make up our solar system, it was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2005, after the discovery of the larger Eris – a trans-Neptunian object – forced scientists to consider the formal definition of “planet;” unfortunately for Pluto it didn't make the cut. However, …

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Poor Pluto. Once part of the collective of nine planets that make up our solar system, it was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2005, after the discovery of the larger Eris – a trans-Neptunian object – forced scientists to consider the formal definition of “planet;” unfortunately for Pluto it didn't make the cut. However, as if in an attempt to prove us wrong, Pluto has turned out to be slightly larger than it was originally thought, with the New Horizons probe confirming that it is bigger than previous estimations.

Over the past decade since Pluto's reclassification, many individuals have postulated that it is of various sizes, ranging from 2306 kilometres in diameter, to 2368KM. It turns out however that Pluto is in-fact 2,370KM in diameter, larger than anyone expected. It means that Pluto's surface area is roughly equivalent to that of Russia.

However this size increase does have some ramifications. It means that Pluto is less dense than previously thought, which suggests that there is a higher density of ice in its interior and a little less rock.

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Image source: NASA

As much as it may remain a dwarf planet though, Pluto's moons are far smaller. We will get a better view of them soon, but Nix is estimated to be just 20 miles across, whilst Hydra is closer to 30 miles in diameter.

This is all only possible thanks to the approach of the New Horizons probe, which after almost a decade in the inky blackness of space and billions of miles traversed, is now set to flyby Pluto in the next few hours. However, due to the distance between the control centre and the probe, there will be no direct control and to make sure that processing capabilities and power are conserved, scientists will have no contact with New Horizons until it has completed its complicated series of manoeuvres and picture taking.

It's said that we'll hear about the success or failure of New Horizons in the early hours of Wednesday morning, with images and scientific data to follow in the coming days – though it will take many months to receive all of the space craft's measurements and readings.

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KitGuru Says: Fingers crossed for you New Horizons. Do us proud. 

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New Horizons space probe on track for historic Pluto flyby https://www.kitguru.net/channel/science/jon-martindale/new-horizons-space-probe-on-track-for-historic-pluto-flyby/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/science/jon-martindale/new-horizons-space-probe-on-track-for-historic-pluto-flyby/#respond Mon, 13 Jul 2015 10:12:10 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=258726 Despite having a hiccup when it temporarily switched to its backup computer just before the weekend, NASA has confirmed that the New Horizons space probe is said to be in good shape for its flyby of far-flung dwarf planet, Pluto over the next few days. Launched in 2006 and given a gravity assist by Jupiter …

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Despite having a hiccup when it temporarily switched to its backup computer just before the weekend, NASA has confirmed that the New Horizons space probe is said to be in good shape for its flyby of far-flung dwarf planet, Pluto over the next few days.

Launched in 2006 and given a gravity assist by Jupiter and Earth, the space craft is now travelling at 14 kilometres per second, so is quickly approaching its intended flyby, having come within a million miles of Pluto early Monday morning. At its closest approach in the coming days, New Horizons will pass just 12,500KM above the surface of the world, taking high resolution imagery as it passes by.

However, due to the many billions of miles between Earth and the probe, it cannot be controlled in-real time, so will be operating an automated procedure throughout. The data sent back is also expected to take up to 16 months to be returned in its entirety, though we should see the first close up images of Pluto come through in the next few days.

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Early shots on the approach to the dwarf planet have already been impressing scientists around the world. 

As well as Pluto's surface, New Horizons will also be taking photos of many of Pluto's moons, including Charon – which has already been pictured – Styx, Nix, Kerberos and Hydra, all of which have only been glimpsed in blurry digital reconstructions before now.

Unfortunately though New Horizons will simply be travelling too fast and with too little fuel to be captured by the weak gravity of Pluto, so it will speed on by after a brief few days in Pluto's presence. However, even after it's main mission is finished, it still has much to do. Between 2016 and 2020, there's a chance that the speeding probe will be able to fly by several Kuiper belt objects, specifically 2014 MU69 in 2019.

The mission is expected to officially end around 2026, when the on board radioisotope thermoelectric generator's plutonium sufficiently decays. However, if it doesn't, New Horizons can continue to be useful well into the 2030s, taking measurements from our solar system's outer heliosphere.

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KitGuru Says: Fingers crossed for you New Horizons. Send us back some pretty snaps from your holiday.

Image source: NASA

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NASA revives New Horizons probe after malfunction https://www.kitguru.net/channel/science/jon-martindale/nasa-revives-new-horizons-probe-after-malfunction/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/science/jon-martindale/nasa-revives-new-horizons-probe-after-malfunction/#respond Mon, 06 Jul 2015 10:44:47 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=257580 Everyone excited to see what images the New Horizons probe is set to send back of Pluto, our erstwhile 8th planetary friend, can breathe a sigh of relief, as NASA scientists have managed to bring it back to life after a computer malfunction, just over a week out from its fly by. The fault occurred …

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Everyone excited to see what images the New Horizons probe is set to send back of Pluto, our erstwhile 8th planetary friend, can breathe a sigh of relief, as NASA scientists have managed to bring it back to life after a computer malfunction, just over a week out from its fly by.

The fault occurred on Saturday afternoon, when an as-yet undiagnosed malfunction caused the probe to switch to a backup computer system, resulting in the entire space-craft being out of touch with ground control for what must have been a nail-biting 81 minutes. Fortunately they quickly re-established communication and announced that despite the set back, the scheduled fly by would still take place on the 14th July, as planned.

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As cool as these renders are, I think future launches should include a space-craft selfy stick. Source: NASA

However, there will be a lack of imagery over the next few days as NASA brings the craft back to full functionality, as it explained in a statement:

“Due to the 9-hour, round trip communication delay that results from operating a spacecraft almost 3 billion miles (4.9 billion kilometers) from Earth, full recovery is expected to take from one to several days; New Horizons will be temporarily unable to collect science data during that time.”

Fortunately NASA had already completed all scheduled manoeuvres to orient the craft into the correct path to fly by Pluto at an altitude that avoids any potential hazards whilst taking the best quality images possible of its surface. To date, the best pictures we have of the far flung dwarf planet are blurry, vague ones captured by the Hubble Space telescope.

Already images from New Horizons have proved almost as detailed, so as it gets closer and as long as it comes fully back online, we may see some much clearer shots.

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KitGuru Says: It would be heart breaking if after its near 10 year journey New Horizons failed to operate correctly. Here's hoping last week's Space X failure wasn't a bad omen.

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NASA wants a clear path for Pluto probe https://www.kitguru.net/channel/science/jon-martindale/nasa-wants-a-clear-path-for-pluto-probe/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/science/jon-martindale/nasa-wants-a-clear-path-for-pluto-probe/#comments Mon, 18 May 2015 10:55:44 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=249803 As NASA's New Horizons probe gets ever closer to its intended target of Pluto, where on the 14th July it is expected to complete its first flyby of the dwarf planet, scientists on the ground are scanning the inky blackness of space to make sure that it has a clear path. Since the probe is travelling …

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As NASA's New Horizons probe gets ever closer to its intended target of Pluto, where on the 14th July it is expected to complete its first flyby of the dwarf planet, scientists on the ground are scanning the inky blackness of space to make sure that it has a clear path. Since the probe is travelling at more than 32,500 miles per hour (relative to the Sun), colliding with something as small as a speck of dust would be the equivalent of setting off a huge explosion on the surface of the craft, so keeping it sailing through space free from obstacles is an important part of the mission.

To keep New Horizons running safely, NASA is now conducting weekly observations using the probe's long-range camera to look for potential debris, as well as sources of it. Pluto is known to have several moons of its own, some of which may be shedding dust into the nearby system. If so, that needs to be avoided at all costs.

However veering off at those sorts of speeds isn't easy and it's potentially costly in terms of fuel, of which in space, there is always a finite supply of. One suggested strategy from NASA researchers is to use the ship's high-gain antenna as a forward facing shield, letting it take the brunt of any dust particles in its path; though this is hardly ideal. Fortunately then there are three potential course changes that could be made, allowing the craft to still achieve its mission objectives, whilst not sacrificing too much fuel.

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Artists interpretation of New Horizon's orbiting Pluto

That said, NASA would rather not change course at all, since the alternatives would send the craft much closer to the surface of the dwarf planet and therefore the images recovered of its surface would not be as clear.

“Our cameras are designed to work from a certain distance, with things moving at a certain rate of speed through the system,” explained NASA's John Spencer (via Yahoo). “If you're speeding along a highway, it's hard to read the sign on the front of a business that's right next to the road.”

Fortunately though, whatever route the craft takes, it's predicted that it will have enough fuel left (even after a manoeuvre) to visit other objects beyond Pluto in a plan for an extended mission beyond current parameters.

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KitGuru Says: Fingers crossed for you New Horizons. It's time Pluto got a bit of a redemption after it was dropped from school books around the world. 

You'll always be the ninth planet to us '90s kids Pluto. Don't worry.

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New Horizons probe to begin Pluto snapshots https://www.kitguru.net/channel/science/jon-martindale/new-horizons-probe-to-begin-pluto-snapshots/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/science/jon-martindale/new-horizons-probe-to-begin-pluto-snapshots/#comments Mon, 26 Jan 2015 09:22:49 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=232382 The New Horizon's probe has been sailing through the murky black of space for almost a decade, with little to report but some atmospheric and magnetosphere tests when receiving a gravity assist from Jupiter. That was all part of the plan though, to bring the space-craft into a nearby encounter with the dwarf planet Pluto. …

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The New Horizon's probe has been sailing through the murky black of space for almost a decade, with little to report but some atmospheric and magnetosphere tests when receiving a gravity assist from Jupiter. That was all part of the plan though, to bring the space-craft into a nearby encounter with the dwarf planet Pluto. With that on-track to take place in July this year, New Horizon has been awoken and is now taking long-range images of the stellar body and its moons.

At this stage, it's still some 200 million miles away, so the images being taken don't show us anything that will break new bounds in science, but they will help NASA make adjustments to its course, to help refine its encounter and bring it in ever closer to what was once called the ninth planet in our solar system. Sadly, however many corrections NASA makes, it won't be possible to enter into orit around Pluto. Being only 2,400 KM in diameter, its gravitational pull isn't enough to capture New Horizon, which in order to reach the Kuiper Belt for an encounter with Pluto, is travelling at some 14 kilometres per second (31,317MPH).

That means that the flyby with the dwarf planet will be very quick, giving NASA little time for error in making its measurements and taking pictures; especially considering many of the instruments require usage at specific distances from Pluto. At the closest, we can expect New Horizons to fly past at a distance just shy of 14,000 KM, on the 14th July. Up until that point, images will be taken, gradually increasing in clarity as the ship gets ever closer.

While this might seem like a great distance, it will allow for an unparalleled look at the dwarf-planet, sending back images far clearer than anything we have at the moment. To put it into context, these are the best pictures we have so far, thanks to composite creations of many Hubble Space Telescope images:

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One particular aspect of the planet that scientists are interested in, is Pluto's relationship with its moon Charon, which being a third of the size of the dwarf planet, locks it in a barycenter orbit, whereby instead or the moon orbiting the world, due to gravitational forces they both orbit a point between them.

This phenomenon was caught in action on some of New Horizon's earliest pictures of Pluto and Charon, taken in the middle of last year.

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KitGuru Says: It's unlikely that Pluto will end up looking like the rubber duck shape of comet 67P, but it will be interesting to see what it looks like up close. Yes, in space, 14,000 KM is practically next door.

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The CPU from the original PlayStation is powering a probe to Pluto https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/the-cpu-from-the-original-playstation-is-powering-a-probe-to-pluto/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/the-cpu-from-the-original-playstation-is-powering-a-probe-to-pluto/#comments Sat, 17 Jan 2015 17:25:51 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=231130 If consoles don't work out then I suppose Sony could always get in to the Space exploration business as the CPU from the original PlayStation is currently powering a probe to Pluto. The old MIPS R3000 CPU was repurposed by NASA back in 2006 to monitor sensors, power thrusters and transmit data. This isn't the …

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If consoles don't work out then I suppose Sony could always get in to the Space exploration business as the CPU from the original PlayStation is currently powering a probe to Pluto. The old MIPS R3000 CPU was repurposed by NASA back in 2006 to monitor sensors, power thrusters and transmit data.

This isn't the first time old Sony technology has been used for space research, a few weeks back we learned of a scientist using a network of PlayStation 3 consoles to power research in to black holes.

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NASA does prefer to use older technology rather than the cutting edge for reliability purposes. The Orion spacecraft which may one day be sent off to Mars is powered by an IBM processor from 2002.

The probe to Pluto is now on its final stretch to its destination following its launch back in 2006. The arrival date is currently projected as the 14th of July this year so it has been quite a long journey.

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KitGuru Says: Its crazy to think that the same chip found in the original PlayStation is now off to parts of space that man-made objects have yet to explore.

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Via: The Verge

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Sega Pluto prototypes rediscovered https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/console-desktop-pc/jon-martindale/sega-pluto-prototypes-rediscovered/ https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/console-desktop-pc/jon-martindale/sega-pluto-prototypes-rediscovered/#respond Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:32:38 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=132510 Some of the rarest video games, consoles and accessories are prototypes that never made it into full production. Finding them in the wild is nearly impossible as they're usually in the basement/attic of a previously fired and (at the time) disgruntled employee, who decided they would take the latest and greatest development with them when …

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Some of the rarest video games, consoles and accessories are prototypes that never made it into full production. Finding them in the wild is nearly impossible as they're usually in the basement/attic of a previously fired and (at the time) disgruntled employee, who decided they would take the latest and greatest development with them when they left. That's what happened with the unreleased Sega Pluto, an update to the Saturn that added a modem and now in just a week, two of these have been rediscovered.

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According to the initial announcer over at the Assembler Games forums, the Pluto really was just a Saturn with a Netlink modem built in. It was pretty huge though and very heavy: “The front features two controller ports, and on top you have a flip-top drive bay, a cart slot, a Power button, and the venerable Reset button.”

In his description, the poster, who goes by the name of “Super Magnetic,” said that as far as he knew, two Pluto consoles were made and his was number two. Just a couple of days later though and Destructoid user, “kidvid666” posted up a video showing off his Pluto. He apparently bought it years ago for a dollar at a “flea market”, or car boot to us Brits, not knowing what it was until Super Magnetic explained it recently.

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Kidvid apparently plans to put this up on Ebay in the next few days, cashing in on the news stories that highly reputable journalists like myself are writing. If you've got a few spare bucks and you're a big Sega fan, get ready to fight off the bids of serious collectors from around the world. I'm betting this one goes for a lot.

KitGuru Says: The question now remains, how many other Pluto consoles might be out there, just waiting to be rediscovered?

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