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Published: 2015-01-11 17:31:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 15508; Favourites: 370; Downloads: 0
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Voyager 3 probe, after 11 years in space, is zipping through Pluto system at over 17 km/s, getting first high resolution images of the farthest planet of the Solar System, not yet visited by any spacecraft.spacethatneverwas.tumblr.com/
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This is really beautiful. I'd love to use it as thew wallpaper my iPad pro. Any chance of a higher res version?
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwxYiVβ¦
Good job!
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pfff.
here orig07.deviantart.net/7d25/f/2β¦
happy now? 
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Nice work!! It helps keep us New Horizons fans from going crazy with anticipation! I bet Pluto will look a lot like your rendering.
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Dude, this is amazing. Followed you on tumblr too, I love space. I'd also love to collaborate on weom.co someday, if you're interested.
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cant wait for horizon to make this history
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Awesome, love it!! 
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Thanks! New Horizons flyby will be awesome for sure
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Waiting for the day we do get something to land on that little dwarf.
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Yeah, I hope that day will come sometime within our lifetimes
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Imagine being the first human to land on Pluto.
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that would be an awesome view for sure - I plan to go back to Pluto soon, for some snapshots from the surface, maybe even with some explorers, who knows
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Thanks! And I'll definitely keep them coming
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Would you care to share what hardware (input devices) you are using? I am looking for a graphic tablet, something that would allow me to be very precise. I have CAD and CAE in mind here. Your work looks like you take your time for the dimensions and structure of your subjects. I was thinking about Wacom Intuos 3 A5 or A4. I just hope the GNU/Linux support is as good as it they say it is.
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Hey, sure, that's not a problem - I'm using Wacom Intuos 4 Large (it's a bit over a4). I use Photoshop and I mostly paint stuff by hand, so graphic tablet is essential for this. For CAD purposes, I'm not really sure if the tablet is "precise" enough. I'm an architect myself, I worked a lot with CAD software and I always found using mouse a lot easier and more comfortable than graphic tablet. Wacom tablets are precise, but they're good for freehand lines and strokes, placing points in CAD is a bit of a pain with tablet, at least for me. For CAD I got myself a good gaming mouse (gaming mice have the best precision). Hope that helps, if you have more questions, feel free to ask
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Could you retrace precisely, let's say 3 points across a technical precision paper (papier milimetrowy), draw something and then try to retrace those points again? Would the points be precisely in the same spot in a CAD program or would they "jump"? Does you tablet accept multiple expresskeys at once? Is their switching mechanism soft or hard and loud? Thank you for the information.
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You do realize that I'm also from Poland?
Anyway, regarding the precision paper - you are able to do that, but it just won't get you the same results each time - they will look right, but in CAD it's all about absolute precision, so results of tracing will vary a bit. If you are tracing some technical drawings from paper, then using tablet would make it faster to input the rough drawing into CAD, but then I'd go back with mouse to do the adjusting to get everything right. Also, you can press at least two express keys at once, and they are pretty silent, mouseclick is a lot louder. But that's my Intuos 4, Intuos 3 is a bit louder in that matter.
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Yes, but I see no reason why our exchange should be limited to ourselves, where others might benefit from it.
Thank you again for your input. Maybe an investment into the 4th generation/series would be wiser. I thankfully do not have to retrace blueprints, but am planning on using the tablet for electrical schematics and creative aspects of course.
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Yeah, i see
Anyway, I guess there's not much difference in price between intuos4 and the newest intuos pro which has some nice features, like being wireless. And getting intuos4 can be a bit difficult right now, if I were you, I'd go with the newest one.
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I think they originally wanted to have 3 or 4 voyager spacecraft to explore the outer solar system, but due to costs the did what they could with 2. I'm not to sure though. awesome work you have here
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Yeah, I've read somewhere that NASA wanted to take advantage of the planets' alignment in late 70s and sent more Voyager probes, which would eventually visit Pluto as well, but lack of funding got in the way, as always. Too bad we didn't have these probes, but actually that makes it even more exciting for us to wait for New Horizons to get to Pluto later this year.
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Actually, the Voyager spacecraft are a continuation, or extension, of the Mariner program. Originally called Mariner 11 and 12, Voyager 1 and 2 were under development for so long that their design/mission objectives no longer truly resembled the Mariner probes, so they renamed them. Fun fact, old blueprints of the Voyager 1 show the name Mariner 11... Sorry, I really like the Voyager Spacecraft. ^_^
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Yeah, there were a few NASA programs around 70s that had lots of common features - Mariner, Pioneer, Voyager, Viking and some later ones like Magellan, Galileo or even Cassini - they all shared common design, with some differences in scientific instruments and other equipment and their placement around the spacecraft.
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Exactly true indeed.
Plus we have an advantage of more modern equipment on New Horizons.
The pluto flyby will be absolutely amazing. though not to forget Ceres as well.
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Yes, New Horizons' shots of Jupiter and its moons proved the quality of it's cameras
And yes, Dawn mission is another thing that can make 2015 a great year for space exploration
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Cheers to the new discoveries.
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