T. Little Lady

Designer by day, bookworm by night! Loves to cook & create recipes, reading is an absolute passion, traveling the world is a wonderful dream, & an aspiring model once upon a time. Politics are intriguing, God is amazing, make-up is creativity, tattoos are art, dinosaurs are cool, America is free because of the brave, being in love is like being drunk, laundry is torture, pink is pretty, having a heart of gold is beautiful, death is devastating, country music is reflective, jealousy is evil, spray tans are nice, the future is mysterious, cancer is stupid, having a prosthetic leg is bittersweet, pick-up trucks are kryptonite, soldiers are admirable, & having the mouth of a sailor is bliss. <3 "Hope anchors the soul." --Hebrews 6:19

[tlittlelady-blog]

For he is the living God    and he endures forever;    his kingdom will not be destroyed,    his dominion will never end. He rescues and he saves;    he performs signs and wonders    in the heavens and on the earth.

Daniel 6:27

[nasa]

What Have We Learned About Pluto?

Earlier this year on July 14, our New Horizons spacecraft successfully flew by Pluto. During this encounter, it collected more than 1,200 images of the dwarf planet and tens of gigabits of data. The intensive downlinking of this information began on Sept. 5, and will continue for around a year. With the information being returned for the duration of a year, we still have a lot more to learn about Pluto. Here are a few things we’ve discovered so far:

Pluto’s Heart

An image captured by New Horizons around 16 hours before closest approach displays Pluto’s “heart”. This stunning image of one of the planet’s most dominate features shows us that the heart’s diameter is about the same distance as from Denver to Chicago. This image also showed us that Pluto is a complex world with incredible geological diversity.

Icy Plains

Pluto’s vast icy plain, informally called Sputnik Planum, resembles frozen mud cracks on Earth. It has a broken surface of irregularly-shaped segments, bordered by what appear to be shallow troughs. In other areas, the surface appears to be etched by fields of small pits that may have formed by a process called sublimation, which is when ice turns directly from solid to gas, just as dry ice does on Earth. 

Majestic Mountains

Images from the spacecraft display chaotically jumbled mountains that only add to the complexity of Pluto’s geography. The rugged, icy mountains are as tall as 11,000 feet high.

Color Variations

This high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto combines, blue red and infrared images taken by the New Horizons spacecraft. The surface of the dwarf planet has a remarkable range of subtle color variations. Many landforms have their own distinct colors, telling a complex geological and climatological story of the planet.

Foggy Haze and Blue Atmosphere

Images returned from the New Horizons spacecraft have also revealed that Pluto’s global atmospheric haze has many more layers than scientists realized. The haze even creates a twilight effect that softly illuminates nightside terrain near sunset, which makes them visible to the cameras aboard the spacecraft. Today, a new announcement was made about Pluto’s atmosphere after the most recent image returned from New Horizons showed that Pluto’s hazes are blue. The haze particles themselves are likely gray or red, but they way they scatter blue light has created this tint.

Water Ice

In another finding announced today, New Horizons has detected numerous small, exposed regions of water ice on Pluto. Scientists are eager to understand why water appears exactly where it does, and not in other places.

Stay updated on New Horizons findings by visiting the New Horizons page. You can also keep track of Pluto News on the New Horizons Blog. 

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com

[tlittlelady-blog]

Show your support!

[tlittlelady-blog]

There's a little bit of devil in her angel eyes.

Love & Theft

[best-lovequotes]

Via 30 Famous Inspirational Quotes

[cartoonpolitics]

[tlittlelady-blog]

As sad as this is, it’s true than what people want to believe. With that though the problem is not guns, the problem is humans.

[wordsnquotes]

I like to be around all these books. They’re very good at making you forget your troubles. It’s like having a million friends, wrapped in paper and scrawled in ink.

Melissa Grey, The Girl at Midnight (via wordsnquotes)

[bey]

[weheartit-deactivated20221101]

[mybestlovequotes-deactivated201]

[tlittlelady-blog]

Freebie Alert:: Have some fun with work, school, etc.... with this awesome zombie calendar with 96 editable sections!

http://tlittleladydesigns.com/zombie-boy-calendar/

[tlittlelady-blog]

Give me that moonshine, dripping off your lips. Yeah, I wanna get drunk on your kiss.

Sarah Ross

[allthebestofmemes]

allthebestofmemes is your #1 source of funny

[tlittlelady-blog]

The only explanation for missing you this much. Is I'm either going crazy, or I'm just still in love

Sarah Ross

[tlittlelady-blog]

Because I’m a designer by day & of course I’m working right now.. Sneak Peek at Upcoming Collection..

[tlittlelady-blog]

[tlittlelady-blog]