At the edge of the solar system...

[Øivind Tøien]

If someone told me this was as capture from a flight over northern Greenland...

Link http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/nh-apluto-mountains-plains-9-17-15.png



...except for the curvature of the horizon and the layering of the atmosphere of Pluto. The "ocean" and glaciers involves "soft and exotic ices, including nitrogen, rather than water ice" according to spaceweather.com.

This is actually a pretty nice landscape image. Another wider view of the same can be found here:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/iotd.html?id=370514

We have come along way when images like these can be captured in almost complete darkness while zipping past an object at the edge of the solar system.

[Frank Fremerey]

A really exotic fascinating landscape shot. When I see it I ask myself: Do I really want to go there?

SpaceX, the company of Paypal and Thesla founder Elon Musk, is really earnestly working to colonize Mars.

I read through the long text in which Musk describes how we can settle on Mars & why and which other space objects we could possibly colonize.

I do not buy it.

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Had the offer to join a one-way trip to Mars arrived 40 years earlier, I certainly would have applied myself.

At present, I only need to blame the lack of wi-fi and 'net support - how is one to run NG from there?

[Frank Fremerey]

Dreaming is not forbidden, traveling in your imagination neither.

The blog who met Elon and wrote 192 A4 pages on his ideas of space colonisation: http://waitbutwhy.com/

[elsa hoffmann]

I wouldnt think twice if offered a trip.

[Akira]

A truly impressive image that strongly reminds me that you have to "be there" to capture the decisive moment.

Thanks for sharing.

[Jacques Pochoy]

Truly fascinating... :-) When much younger I would have dreamed to get into space. Now that I'm much older and broken everywhere, I appreciate much simpler and mundane views, but still fascinated by deep range underwater world or space... :-)

[pluton]

A really exotic fascinating landscape shot. When I see it I ask myself: Do I really want to go there?

SpaceX, the company of Paypal and Thesla founder Elon Musk, is really earnestly working to colonize Mars.

I read through the long text in which Musk describes how we can settle on Mars & why and which other space objects we could possibly colonize.

I do not buy it.

I don't buy that it will happen.  I have a creepy feeling that the advocates of such projects have given up on the Earth's future as a livable place, and assume that such horrors are coming to us in the next couple of hundred years that they actually see colonizing Mars as their personal escape plan.
On a lighter note, I wonder what the incident illumination is on Pluto:  1 lux, maybe?
EDIT:  Apparently, depending on the highly varying orbital distance of Pluto, it'd be around 8 footcandles, which is about 86 lux. 

[Bjørn Rørslett]

We might need the 1024 K = 1 M ISO setting on a new camera after all ??

[pluton]

Bjørn, your Df and Noct would be perfect.

[Gary]

Bjørn, your Df and Noct would be perfect.

Technology can be awe inspiring.