Google celebrates the partnership of NASA and Facebook’s Instagram sneak-peek exploratory Pluto photo

NASA let Facebook-owned Instagram sneak peek Pluto photos and Google celebrates the partnership of NASA and Facebook’s Instagram sneak-peek exploratory Pluto photo with a lovely animated doodle. Pluto’s sneak peek photo on Instagram marks the first time NASA has given social media the first shot, sneak peek to its space exploratory photo.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft traveled for 9 years, 3 billion miles, at 14km per second (roughly 1.79 miles per second) around Pluto capturing the very first image today (July 13) at 4 p.m. (E.D.T.) at 476,000 miles from Pluto’s surface. The closest and most detailed image was photographed later this morning at 7:49 a.m.

NASA’s live briefing on NASA TV began 8 a.m. today at NASA TV, and the high resolution photo will be posted at NASA.gov with more coverage on NASA TV throughout the day.

NASA also agreed to give Facebook's Instagram, which currently has 300 million users, a head start by allowing it to post the first image 7.a.m. before official release. The NASA Instagram is very popular and has over 3.5 million followers. For decades has been much debate and challenge as to the size of Pluto due to many factors including Pluto's atmosphere. With NASA’s latest New Horizons spacecraft mission the size of Pluto is estimated at 1,473 miles (2,370 kilometers) in diameter, somewhat larger than many prior estimates.

Pluto is the second-most massive direct orbit of the Sun in the Solar System and ninth largest (tenth-most massive) known object directly orbiting the Sun. Eight planets orbit the sun, listed in order closest to the Sun: Mercury,Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Once classified as a planet, Pluto, is now classified as a dwarf planet or plutoid.

@NASANewHorizons will be live-tweeting beginning this morning using the hashtag #plutoflyby. Other hashtags include #nasa #pluto #plutoflyby #newhorizons #solarsystem #nasabeyond #science

As of 8:25 a.m, there are currently over 90.5K likes and over 3,500 comments on NASA’s Instagram.

Resources:
• How Big Is Pluto? New Horizons, NASA’s Mission to Pluto
• Pluto will send earth a love letter tomorrow, WIRED
• Pluto on Wikipedia
• The New Horizons Pluto mission is a big deal. Here are 7 reasons why.

Happy 1st Anniversary – world’s cowardly terrorist dead 1 year ago on 5/1/2011

May 1, 2011 marked the end of the Cowardly Terrorist! So shall we all celebrate the 9/11 Falling Man photo as the 501 "Rocket Man" photo?

"The Falling Man," photo below by Richard Drew is rotated 180° to celebrate the 1 year anniversary on the death of OBL and as a symbol of rising peace. Truly so much more to this photo than meets the eye.

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One of the most provocative, unforgettable images by Associated Press photographer Richard Drew, of a man falling from the twin towers, positioned perfectly in the middle, has been flipped! To celebrate the 1 year anniversary on the death of the cowardly terrorist, I rotated “Falling Man” image 180° as a symbol of rising peace, beginning a new chapter closing the decade of 911, and the decling of al-Qaeda cult. It was bin Laden's overall strategy to cripple the Soviet Union and United States by luring them into war to nowhere with Muslim countries to economically crush non-jihadist nations. According to a CNN report “a tape broadcast by al-Jazeera, the Al-Qaeda manuals clearly outline OBL’s strategy where bin Laden also spoke of "bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy".

Excerpts from lyrics to “Rocket Man” by Neil Diamond posted below:
I miss the earth so much
I miss my lady
It’s lonely out in space
On such a time, time
Such a timeless flight
And I think it’s gonna be a long, long time
Till touchdown brings me around again
To find I’m not the man
They think I am at home
Oh no, oh no, oh no
I’m a rocket man
Rocket man
Rocket man

Additional information at the following links:

║See CBS video, “The Passionate Eye,” http://www.cbc.ca/passionateeyemonday/video_player.html?fallingman&playerType=wmp

║Video “911 The Falling Man”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EFvGuIXIJc&feature=related Images of bodies hanging out of windows, holding on across the steel across windows, leaning out for air.

║Google Blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/ten-years-later.html

║September 11th, 2001 – The Day The World Cried. Ten Years Later! http://myblog.allthingsdigitalmarketing.com/2011/09/september-11th-2001-day-world-cried-ten.html

HAPPY 60th B-DAY TO Iconic photo "American Girl in Italy" by Ruth Orkin

Sixty years ago today, Ruth Orkin captured the imaginations across the globe with this iconic photo titled "American Girl in Italy." According to Ninalee Craig (also known at that time as Jinx Allen) , subject woman in the photo, 23 years old at the time, the photo was not a symbol of harassment as many assumed, but an honest portrayal of an American woman having a wonderful time in Italy and enjoying the moment of being admired by 15 Italian men. Ninalee Craig is now a great-grandmother living in Canada. The photographer, Ruth Orkin, who passed away in 1985, also co-wrote and co-directed the 1956 Oscar-nominated film "Little Fugitive." In a telephone interview Craig confirmed on NBC that the photo was not staged and "symbolizes independence and fearlessness not harassment," see Today People article by Laura T. Coffey. More photos by Ruth Orkin at Bulger Gallery.
For more information visit "American Girl in Italy: 60 years later" by Mike Kromboltz of The Lookout.