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Charon (the ferryman of Hades), gladitorial re-enactment. Festival of History - Kelmarsh, Northamptonshire 20/07/2008
Edited New Horizons image of Pluto and Charon (Pluto is visible as a white dot near the center-right of the image, and Charon is to Pluto's lower-left).
"If you've a penny in your purse, I will ferry you".
Words from a poem by Christina Rossetti that I learned many years ago when I first started at school in Hamilton, Scotland.
This chap will ferry you across Weymouth harbour from near the Pavilion to the Nothe steps, but he will expect a bit more than a penny.
I believe that the poem was originally written about Charon the ferryman who rowed people across the river Styx into Hades. A coin to pay Charon was placed over each eye of a deceased person before interment.
Rue de Charonne / Rue Saint Bernard, Paris 11e.
Pas persuadée qu'il s'agit bien d'un Space Invader. Mais si c'est le cas, j'ai l'impression que le quartier est le vaisseau mère...
Gibon Nabas, Aklan
Philippines
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... spotted the ferryman of Hades in an antique store off the Alcala. So wanted to take this home but he was too large & too heavy.
Edited New Horizons image of Pluto and Charon. Color variant.
Original caption: The latest two full-frame images of Pluto and Charon were collected separately by New Horizons during approach on July 13 and July 14, 2015. The relative reflectivity, size, separation, and orientations of Pluto and Charon are approximated in this composite image, and they are shown in approximate true color.
Image Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI
What do the moons of Pluto look like? Before a decade ago, only the largest moon Charon was known, but never imaged. As the robotic New Horizons spacecraft was prepared and launched, other moons were identified on Hubble images but remained only specks of light. Finally, this past summer, New Horizons swept right past Pluto, photographed Pluto and Charon in detail, and took the best images of Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra that it could. The featured image composite shows the results -- each moon is seen to have a distinct shape, while underlying complexity is only hinted. Even though not satisfyingly resolved, these images are likely to be the best available to humanity for some time. This is because the moons are too small and distant for contemporary Earth-based telescopes to resolve, and no new missions to the Pluto system are planned. via NASA
What do the moons of Pluto look like? Before a decade ago, only the largest moon Charon was known, but never imaged. As the robotic New Horizons spacecraft was prepared and launched, other moons were identified on Hubble images but remained only specks of light. Finally, this past summer, New Horizons swept right past Pluto, photographed Pluto and Charon in detail, and took the best images of Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra that it could. The featured image composite shows the results -- each moon is seen to have a distinct shape, while underlying complexity is only hinted. Even though not satisfyingly resolved, these images are likely to be the best available to humanity for some time. This is because the moons are too small and distant for contemporary Earth-based telescopes to resolve, and no new missions to the Pluto system are planned. via NASA ift.tt/1Rx1n1X
This image is a processed stack of three images taken by the New Horizons space probe which will fly by Pluto on July 14 2015. When Hew Horizons took this photograph, it was still 5 days travel, and 6.3 million km from Pluto. Pluto is the larger object at upper right, its moon Charon is the darker object at lower left. Original images courtesy of NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute.
What do the moons of Pluto look like? Before a decade ago, only the largest moon Charon was known, but never imaged. As the robotic New Horizons spacecraft was prepared and launched, other moons were identified on Hubble images but remained only specks of light. Finally, this past summer, New Horizons swept right past Pluto, photographed Pluto and Charon in detail, and took the best images of Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra that it could. The featured image composite shows the results -- each moon is seen to have a distinct shape, while underlying complexity is only hinted. Even though not satisfyingly resolved, these images are likely to be the best available to humanity for some time. This is because the moons are too small and distant for contemporary Earth-based telescopes to resolve, and no new missions to the Pluto system are planned. via NASA ift.tt/1Rx1n1X