dr. john grunsfeld. [applause] >> welcome, everyone. it is full auditorium here at the lab. i was worried no one would show up. actually, i wasn't worried at all. anybody get sleep last night? i am not hearing too many affirmations of a good night sleep. the team was probably excited about the data pass this morning as was i. i would like to take you on a discussion and i will not say a lot. the first image i would like to bring up was taken two hours ago by the solar dynamics observe tory. i think you know where we are going. mercury, venus from there, if anyone doesn't recognize the next planet please leave the auditorium and we will escourt you to area 51. the red planet mars i had to get a hubble image in there somewhere. i realize i missed one. jupiter which some of the moons and shadows. to saturn. what a wonderful mission chatty this is just striking. neptune. and for a grand finale i turn it over to alan stern, the principle investigator of the pluto new horizons' mission. [applause] >> before we turn it over to alan, i have a few words to say. yesterday, america's s

dr. john grunsfeld. [ applause ] >> welcome, everyone. it's a full auditorium here at the johns hopkins university applied physics lab. i was a little bit worried no one would show up. actually, i wasn't worried at all. anybody get any sleep last night? i'm not hearing too many affirmations of a good night's sleep. i'm not going to ask the team, because i know they were probably pretty excited about this morning's data pass, as was i. i'd like to take on you a short tour to frame the discussion. and i'm not going to say a whole lot. the first image that i'd like to bring up was taken just about two hours ago by the solar dynamics observatory. i hope you recognize that object. and i think you know where we're going. mercury. from the messenger mission, venus. from magellan. if anybody doesn't recognize the next planet, i'd like you to leave the auditorium. security will escort you to area 51. [ laughter and applause ] >> the red planet mars. i had to get a hubble image in there somewhere. [ applause ] i realize i missed siriz which the spac

dr. john grunsfeld: . >> it has been an incredible voyage. i know many of you have been participating the last few days but what it all comes down to is an enormous team of people led by alan stern, a big team here at the john hopkins applied physics laboratory, university of colorado the list goes on and on. hundreds of scientist, engineers, technicians, and people sewing blankets helping the explorer to visit pluto and fly on beyond. i am so glad you are here to participate in this true exploration exploration. that view is just the first of many, many rewards the team will get especially since pluto didn't turn out to be a featureless planet and we are scratching our heads thinking what will we do with that. pluto is an interesting world. of course it would be but it was never a certainty but for the very first time we know that and with that for his first impression i would like to turn it over to alan stern. >> thank you. [applause] >> well i want to thank john for his remarks and nasa for making this possible. how about that? >> 50 year

dr. john grunsfeld. of course, allen stearn needs no introduction. so i will go to hal weaver, who is project scientist from the johns hopkins applied physics laboratory. followed by will grundy, new horizons co-investigator, lowell observatory in flagstaff, arizona. he will be followed by kathy olken from the southwest research institute. and john spencer, another new horizons co-investigator from the southwest research institute. and with that, allen, it's all yours. >> thank you. i had a pretty good day yesterday. how about you? [ applause ] new horizons is now more than a million miles on the other side of pluto. that's how fast we're moving. having made close approach yesterday morning. the spacecraft is in good health. it's communicated with the earth again for a period of a number of hours this morning, beginning about 5:50. we got data down from five of the scientific instruments already. we're going to report on some of those results. but frankly, we're just skimming the top of it. there's a lot in just the things we're going to talk to you a

dr. john grunsfeld. of course, allen stearn needs no introduction. so i will go to hall weaver, who is project scientist from the johns hopkins applied physics laboratory. followed by will grundy, new horizons co-investigator lowell observatory in flagstaff, arizona. he will be followed by kathy olken from the southwest research institute. and john spencer another new horizons co-investigator from the southwest research institute. and with that, allen it's all yours. >> thank you. i had a pretty good day yesterday. how about you? [ applause ] new horizons is now more than a million miles on the other side of pluto. that's how fast we're moving. having made close approach yesterday morning. the spacecraft is in good health. it's communicated with the earth again for a period of a number of hours this morning beginning about 5:50. we got data down from five of the scientific instruments already. we're going to report on some of those results. but frankly, we're just skimming the top of it. there's a lot in just the things we're going to talk to you abou

dr. john grenz felt. dr. grunsfeld: thank you very much, dewayne. this week has just been a phenomenal week. monday we released the first image from the epic imaging camera on the discovery... the blue marble. this is our first true blue marble of the earth since 1972 when the apollo 17 astronauts took the famous blue marble image of the earth, and it really paints, i think just an incredible picture of our home planet and how, you know, lucky and precious planet earth's, especially when you compare it to the amazing views we have recently gotten from the dawn spacecraft a somewhat hostile world. we just announced yesterday a couple of discovery of a parallel, a cousin to the solar system of our own solar system with the g-type star much like our sun and an annex a planet that is about 60% bigger diameter than the earth right in the middle of the habitable zone. it is truly amazing the things we are doing, but the images we've been getting in the science we've been getting from pluto has really just been more than amazing and proves definitively a s