narrator: neptune-- eighth planet from the sun.stery now, we hope to have close-up photos from voyager 2 in 1989. we do have them! they're my home screen! miss hoover, once again, the lesson plan i prepared would have covered this topic much better. but i can see... (rumbling) (whimpers) miss hoover?

there is a whole slew of objects that come across and cross neptune's orbit.hat we now understand is we don't think of the solar system being the sun and nine planets, we think of it as the sun and different families of objects. the asteroids, the kuiper belt which pluto is a member of constitute these main families so some of those families are primarily dwarfs. pluto is large enough to be a sphere. some people think if it's large enough to be a sphere we should call it a planet. weave made we've made a compromise and it's called a dwarf planet. >> new horizons what do you think is next for the frontier of space exploration? >> right now it's been an era of discovery and there is one thing left to be discovered that we have not seen that we think may well be there. there are efforts now to send new probes to for example, the moon titan and otis for signs of life. another thing that's caught a lot of momentum in the community is uhreranus. it's heavy and dense, but it's the closest planet to us so it makes sense we go there. >> the moon there for pluto, that h

we have seen crater services on the moons of uranus and neptune. we can study the larger parts of the kuiper belt down to 10 millimeters across with hubble and other telescopes. by looking at the cratering records on uranus, neptune, and saturn, the numbers and objects and distribution of objects in the kuiper belt, there has been several studies which have derived an approximation of what the crater flux rate is. we can often tell you the service is extremely old or extremely young. it is harder to tell if it is an intermediate lee aged service. it is difficult to understand how it can be older than 100 million years. >> the world has embraced this mission with billions. social media is certainly a big part of that and nasa is always looking to reach out to new audiences. we will see what the world is talking about on social media with jason townsend. >> our first question comes from a twitter user who asks, how do we know pluto's atmosphere is escaping? >> we have not yet actually measured the escape. we hope to. currently it is based on expectat

when they were living in neptune, on the run? the statement that was put out and rv middletown and i found was walking up and down the street. as the kids for drugs which does not strike me as a strange thing to do but something you might do under the influence. >> the possible silver lining it be that the boy gets what he needs because everyone quieted down. maybe grandma it's my job. it's our. it's her job to protect the boy. the reporters no police, no people. ♪ >> offer bucket list. bill: a hair rising ride. >> you go girl. ♪ bill: jillian has disappeared. and she's back. can you do a "high speed chase" pickup. >> this is a throwback to centuries-old -- what is the -- [laughter] >> put it in the bloopers. music: etta james "at last" (plays throughout) ♪ sometimes, at last doesn't happen at first. ♪ ♪ your dad just kissed my mom. ♪ turning two worlds into one takes love. ♪ helping protect that world takes state farm. >> my man. [laughter] >> what is more american than that? [inaudible conversations] >> this is a woman the trad

still heavy rain coming down in toms river and neptune. we still have a flash flood warning in effect until 12:45. you want to be careful driving throughout date. >> do not drive through floodwaters. thanks for watching "nbc10 news" at 11:00. have a great day. . >> jj: agent watt, it's jj deveraux. i've been thinking about what you wanted me to do, and if it involved taking kyle southern down, then i'm in. i am dead serious. count me in. >> rory: hey! what are you up to, dude?

team six come face-to-face with the most >>> with operation neptune sphere under way in abottomabad, pakistan, they storm the main building of the compound. >> they cleared a room on the first floor killing the courier, and his wife who were found in the first floor of the main building. >> his wife jumped on top. she was killed. we separated into different rooms and were looking down a hallway. >> it was weird to be in there. we're kind of back in the rooms. we don't want to stand in the hallway. that's where the enemy could shoot. >> they began methodically to go room by room the first floor. they work in teams. as they enter the floor they begin looking for rooms where potentially there are beds. they peel off and clear room by room by room. this is happening very rapidly. >> i remember there was a girl in our room, a little girl crying. i had a guy -- i was sort of holding down -- i had a guy taking my spot grabbed her and walked her across the hallway to find a woman to give the girl to. because even in the heat of something that important that moment, we're the good guys. and w

we put it go pro on the fin of a shark at the neptune islands and he swam around and filmed another sharkit was a pretty sketchy moment. i fell in the water trying to put it on. then cut to commerical. you will have to watch to see what i mean. the predator hunts the same way they have for many millions of years. the only thing changing is the technology using that we can use to capture new insights into their behavior. the fact is anyone can come out and grab the camera, go pro, whatever they want, and filmed their own shark week. to me, i feel like a cinema scientist. anywhere from infrared cameras thermal cameras. drones are amazing. i captured nice great white sharks breaching on my phone. the red epic shoots 6k resolution. i also have a phantom a flag which shoots 1000 frames per second at 4k. you can slow down at the bite of the shark or the jump or a breach to 50-100 slower than the speed of light. it's helping scientists learn about their behavior. shark week lets me do all of. emily: better him than me. lead photographer for discoveries shark week. one week in apple music. is it

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 space program took another historic leap for human kind. today, the new horizons team is bringing what was previously a blurred point of light into focus. we have presentations from our panel. we will open up with questions with media here on social media, and we will go to the phone lines. you can join the conversation on social media, twitter, and facebook and if you have questions on social media send them to #asknasa. the images and information you will hear today of course for more days and weeks will be online at nasa.gov/newhorizon. allylan stern needs no introduction so i will go to the project scientist from the john hopkins university physic laboratory followed by the co-investigator in flag staff, arizona, and followed by kathy deputy project scientist from the southw

that isn't pluto, but it is another planet t is like neptune or something. do you know the way to pluto, we have been away so long, we may go wrong and lose our way. space is a great big freeway. put a 100 million down and buy a space probe and dreams of enter the planets turn into dust and fly away and they made it to pluto, hurray. you can really freeze on pluto and we'll find a way to get there some day. boarder line and we are going lose our minds. we just keep pushing space probes over the galaxy, boarder line. please try to understand we got a great big space plan and we got [inaudible] boarder line, and we are gonna shine and push those big space probes over the galaxy. border line. what will we find. what will we find? . >> thank you next speaker, please. >> i want to put this on the screen. i'm a little pertubed and appalled right now not just in city government, but individuals that call themselves leaders. i'm appalled how i was treated in someones office here and i'll make that public later. now i'll here to tell the city and county-we have a sit

the most recent being neptune in 1989. history is about to be made all the way out here. >> it's terribly exciting, nerve-racking. tom: it's expected to be at its closest point to pluto. scientist say that the pictures that it will take of it and its moons will blow these away. it has been nearly a decade since new horizons off. >> it became the fastest launched a vehicle ever. tom: even though scientists have changed pluto from planet to do more for this is historic. >> it's a new object, something we have never seen before. tom: the words that nobody wants to hear tuesday is, laurel, we have a problem. missing a troll is in howard county. they will and justly await for a signal to arrive not expected until 9 p.m. -- mission control is in howard county. back at the smithsonian, folks were learning about pluto. this is a life-sized model of what has traveled nearly 3 billion miles. >> it looks like a satellite dish for a television. >> i think it's amazing. it's phenomenal we have come this far. tom: tom roussey, abc 7 new

>> it revolves around the same sun but it actually crosses neptune. no other planet does that. it's embarrassing. if you're a planet you should not be crossing other people's orbit. >> reporter: for those of us who learned about nine planets near the sun, pluto was last the end of the road in part of the neighborhood that was off limits. now the question of what's really out there is finally coming into clear focus. nasa says the new horizon's mission is the first to explore world so far from earth and adds this mission completes its initial survey of our solar system. >>> that will do it for us on this tuesday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us on "nbc nightly news," thanks for watching and good night. time is running out. a new showdown between police firefighters, and san jose city leaders. >>> right now at 6:00. time is running out. a new showdown between police, firefighters and san jose city leaders. >> once again, it is over pension reform. the clock is ticking to reach a deal or they head back to court. those talks going on behind closed dors right now. robert honda

getting humans to mars, and probes out to sat urn and neptune. the key thing here is getting n.a.s.a. out of the business of shuttling things, industry that can build a business out of that. ideally lower the cost. get tourist stuff into space. n.a.s.a. should be exploratory. do you think we'll sleep in a space hotel some time in our lifetime. do you think it will happen. >> absolutely. we did a study at the new space conference for 50% of attendees. answering that they think there'll be private space stations. it's crazy travel. can you imagine that in space. hannah, executive director of the space granted ear and casey from advocacy at the planetary society. thank you for joining us. >>> john f kennedy described going to the moon as a challenge we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone. when we return - why many americans have lost interest in space. what will it take to get them excited again. . >> three. one. [ cheering ] . >> mission control was all fired up when the first images of ploout j from the spacecraft "new horizons

mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn neptune. >> that's the standard.'s not on the tie, it's not worth knowing. who cares. >> if not on a tie, not a planet. the man that discovered pluto back in 1930 happens to be the great uncle of dodgers pitcher clayton kershaw. we have old baseball references. now to dwayne roc johnson. he merely broke the internet when he showed off a hand injury. those that just woke up may want to turn away. >> we had an accident. he said are you bleeding? i said bleed? i ain't got time to bleed. let's pop the sucker back in. >> that's not good. jimmie fallon revealed it was just a prosthetic not the real hand that was broken. thank god. >>> a sea world employee is accused of being an activist. the animal rights group told bloomberg news thomas took part like the parade in new york. they believe he has worked for the park since 2008. the company will not comment on whether the man works for them saying we do not comment on security operations and claiming animal rights groups are extreme in rhetoric and tactics. that's all i've g

neptune. and for a grand finale, i turn it over to allen stearn, the principal investigator of the pluto new horizons mission. [ applause ] >> before we turn it over to allen, i've got a few words to say. yesterday, america's space program took another historic leap for humankind. today, the new horizons team is bringing what was previously a blurred point of light into focus. we'll have presentations from our panel. we'll open it up for questions with media here. on social media. and we'll go to the phone lines. you can join the conversation on social media, twitter, facebook, at #pluto fly-by. if you have questions, send those in to #ask nasa. of course, the images and information you will hear today, for more days and weeks and months, will be online at www.nasa.gov/new horizons. you've heard from 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,

we saw circular features on neptune's moon that are not craters, but right now we're having an awfulfun speculating. >> reporter: new horizons will then continue its journey into a region known as the kuiper belt. >> it's go through the very ancient system where materials change from rock to ice. and we know very little about it, and in this kind of objects, we find -- or we expect to find a little bit more evidence of the pristine material out of which the solar system and the earth, of course was formed 4.5 -- more than 4.5 thousand million years ago. >> reporter: radio signals already take more than four hours to reach earth, making communication slow and difficult. as the probe travels deeper into one of the last unexplored paths of our solar system. >>> plenty more on our website at anytime. the address for that again, is aljazeera.com. historic deal iran and six world powers agree on a plan to limit iran's nuclear program. >> it's a step away from the spector of conflict and towards the possibility of peace. >> opponents at home and abroad say they will do all they can to derai

. >> reporter: it ended a journey to a region beyond neptune called the kuiper belt. >> yesterday america'sam took another historic leap for human kind. today the new horizon's team is bringing what was previously a blurred point of light into focus. >> reporter: pluto is the last major unexplored body in the solar system and nasa officials say they have already learned something new. >> we have discovered that pluto is a little bit larger than we anticipated. we have good measurements of his diameter and radius it's radius is 1185 kilometers plus or minus ten. that settles the debate about the largest object in the kuiper belt. >> reporter: the craft spent more than eight hours looking back at pluto. sending back images took another four and a half hours, the time it takes radio signals traveling at light speed to travel the nearly 5 billion kilometers back to earth. the new images show that it continues massoff mountains and water, a main building block of life. >> reporter: the steep topography means that the bedrock that makes those mountains must be made of water ice. >> reporter: it w

it passed mars then jupiter saturn uranus and then neptune.y after nine and a half years and more than 3 billion miles new horizons will finally reach its target pluto the mysterious dwarf planet. >> we are really making history. and you don't get to do that very often. >> alan stern, the mission's principal investigator calls it the mount everest of planetary exploration. >> new horizons is the last train to clarksville the last picture show. and in the rest of our lives i don't expect that we will see another mission to big real estate that has not yet been explored. >> reporter: a few months ago new horizon photos showed pluto as a fuzzy blob. now they show inexplicable blotches of color which excited scientists are already giving nick names this someone is the whale. and this they say shows that pluto has a big heart. >> it will take four and a half hours for tuesday's photographs traveling at the speed of light to reach mission control. at the johns hopkins applied physics lab in maryland, so we won't see them until wednesday. for stern t

reach jupiter, 800 million miles to saturn and twice that far to reach uranus. 2.5 billion miles to neptune. but now pluto is in a class all by itself. it took nine and a half years at 31,000mph to cover the 3 billion miles before this tiny dwarf planet came into focus. out here our sun is just another star in the sky, although the brightest one. chip reid is covering the mission for us. >> here's the image. here it comes. >> reporter: the highly anticipated photo showed stunned scientists mountains made of ice water standing 11,000 feet high. principle investigator alan stern says the mountains are young, less than 100 million years old. >> i think just that one image of about 1% of the surface of pluto, the planet, and finding mountain ranges like the rockies is a balloon popping. >> reporter: stern, who started pushing for this mission 26 years ago sat down with us shortly before the flyby. >> when i'm asked what i expect i expect the find something wonderful. >> reporter: we asked him about that today. have your expectations been met? and what's the most wonderful thing you've seen so f

>> it revolves around the same sun but while it does that it actually crosses the orbit of neptune for 248-year orbit. no other planet does that. that's embarrassing. if you're a planet you should not be crossing other people's orbits. >> reporter: for generations of us who grew up learning about nine planets in order from the sun, pluto was last, the end of the road in a part of this neighborhood that was off limits. and now the question of what's really out there is finally coming into clear focus. nasa says the "new horizons" mission is the first to explore worlds so far from earth and adds this mission completes its initial survey of our solar system. that will do it for us on this tuesday night. i'm lester holt. for, thank you for watching and good night. >>> people have a very strong opinion about caitlyn jenner. but i think -- >> these seating cards are very strategic. >> the countdown to caitlyn's espy honor. i'm billy bush from the seats to the stage we've got the down-to-the wire adjustments.

circular things that we are wondering are they craters or something else, we saw circular features on neptune'sat are not craters. so we should know in a few days, but right now we are having a lot of fun just really speculating. >> reporter: after flying past pluto, new or highs uns will continues its journal any to a region known as the kuiper belt. >> it's going to the very, very edges of the solar system, of the proper solar system where the materials of the planets change from rock and gas to ice. pluto is the first of the objects that have been discovered and we know very little about it. in these objects we expect to find a little bit more evidence of the pristine material out of which the solar system and the earth, of course, was formed 4 1/2 -- more than 4 1/2 thousand years ago. >> reporter: radio signals from new or rise uns already take more than four hours to reach earth. making communication slow and difficult. it's an ongoing challenge for the scientists as the probe travels deeper in to one of the last unexpected unexplored path of our solar system. >>> finally france has paid

neptune. and for a grand finale i turn it over to allen stearn, the principal investigator of the pluto new horizons mission. [ applause ] >> before we turn it over to allen, i've got a few words to say. yesterday, america's space program took another historic leap for humankind. today, the new horizons team is bringing what was previously a blurred point of light into focus. we'll have presentations from our panel. we'll open it up for questions with media here. on social media. and we'll go to the phone lines. you can join the conversation on social media twitter, facebook at #pluto fly-by. if you have questions, send those in to #ask nasa. of course, the images and information you will hear today, for more days and weeks and months, will be online at www.nasa.gov/new horizons. you've heard from 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, ne

this video tonight out of neptune, florida near jacksonville the lightning there igniting a fire. further north across the entrance to yosemite national park tourists narrating their own video, flash floods shutting down the highway. let's get to rob marciano tracking the severe weather. >> you mentioned the lightning in miami. storms still firing across northern part of the state. georgia also strong storms. a lot of heat and humidity fueling a steamy night across the gulf coast and that's going to carry over tomorrow. going to feel like 100-plus in new orleans, 105 in dallas and oklahoma city. memphis, orlando could see two to three inches of rain. >> rob, thanks as always. >>> i mentioned yoe sem tee just a moment ago. another national park in the headlines tonight, dramatic images out of glacier national park in montana. a wildfire exploding in size campers evacuated, rangers searching the back country at this hour. strong winds and dry conditions fueling the blaze. we'll stay on it. >>> we turn to a scare for passengers on board a royal caribbean cruise ship a plume of smoke,

>> it revolves around the same sun but while it does that it actually crosses the neptune of orbit for 248-year orbit. no other planet does that. that's embarrassing. if you're a planet you should not be crossing other people's orbits. >> reporter: for generations of us who grew up learning about nine planets in order from the sun, pluto was last. the end of the road in a part of this neighborhood that was off limits. and now the question of what's really out there is finally coming into clear focus. nasa says the can the"new horizons" mission is the first to explore a world so far from earth and adds this mission completes its initial survey of our solar system. that will do it for us on this tuesday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching, and good night. . >>> new couple alert. beth then any fair and accurate kehl dating eric stonestreet. >> now on "extra." ♪ ♪ >>> beth then any frankel's new "modern family?" her rumored hookup with tv's loveable cameron. plus breaking couple's news, michael jook son's daughter in love? miranda kerr's surprise new b

this video tonight out of neptune, florida near jacksonville, the lightning there igniting a fire. further north storms ripping a house right off its foundation in north carolina, and across the country at the entrance to yosemite national park tonight, look at this, tourists narrating their own video. flash floods and mud slides trap is cars shutting down highway 140. what a mess. let's get to rob marciano tracking the severe weather. >> you mentioned the lightning in miami. storms still firing across florida, especially the northern part of the state. we have a couple that have gone severe north. a lot of heat and humidity fueling a steamy night across the gulf coast and that's going to carry over tomorrow. going to feel like 100-plus in new orleans, 105 in dallas and 105 in oklahoma city. more rain over the next few days. memphis, oando could see two to three inches of rain. in the mountain west we'll see a rain stream in here but it's not getting to the fires. dry, breezy conditions there. red flag warnings posted. >> rob marciano, thanks as always. >>> i mentioned yosemite jus

willew horizons spacecraft make its first up close examination beyond neptune. the interplanetary space probe was launched nine years ago, and it has traveled more than 3 billion miles. those are your top stories at noon. betty: very cool. coming up in the next half hour, investors a be worried about the wrong country. while much of that attention has been on greece, child what to be a real concern according to morgan stanley. pimm: more on wisconsin governor scott walker, best known for his battles with the unions. greek prime minister alexis tsipras has surrendered to european demands for action to secure a new bailout of $95 billion. we have reporters all across europe reporting for us. in athens is olivia sterns. hans, i want to start with you. most crucial aspect of this bailout deal with i assure you have seen on twitter, has been comparing it to a coup in greece . hans: there is a coup in greece. nanosphere focus said -- yanis varoufakis says it reminds him of the treaty of versailles. it is an agreement to make an offer. earlier this morning, one of my c

alternatively and this is more of a guess they might be plume deposits like seen on neptune's satellite. if the plumes exist, they have not been spotted yet. so this is not an announcement of plumes or guyseysers on pluto but why we have looking for them. these are thirl dayearly dayoffss of the analysis. this is the preliminary stage of the investigation. we are entertaining the widest range of hypothesis. i will pass it back to dwayne now. >> thank you. let's give the team a round of applause. [applause] >> we will start at nasa head quarters with the media in the audience, and see if we have questions from on bridge and social media. wait for the mike. raise your hand. >> steve young with astronomy magazine. we heard about this being the tip of the iceberg. can you quantify how much data you have on the ground versus how much is on the spacecraft waiting to come down? what is the difference in those images when we see the uncom uncompressed version? >> we have 50 giga bytes made 50 days before the closest approach. and that is the full amount we will store through the end of this mon

that was pluto's neighbor neptune. reporting live scott budman nbc bay area news. >>> congratulations. you may bet you are understand how our solar system was formed. >> physicist steven hawking pointed out that pluto and that fly-by happened exactly 50 years after the first robotic mission to mars. >> it's amazing what's happening. we have confirmation of a successful fly by twitter. >> very excited about that. >> it's like we're back in science class. >> appreciating the satellitesleaving the solar system and the ones still close to the earth. >>> right now showing you the low clouds and in some cases misty skies approaching san francisco right now. 62 degrees. a further view away from the low clouds you can see the low clouds pushing back across the bay. and in san jose a little bit of a cool evening. you could actually use a jacket if you're going to hand outdoors for evening plans. here's the reason why. marine air surging in. 15 to 20-mile-per-hour winds, and we'll see areas of low clouds. look at that. drizzle o

team 6 and on the night of may 1st, 2011 he was a part of "operation neptune spear."s the second man through the door into the room where the world's most wanted terrorist was hiding he fired the fateful shot that brought the biggest manhunt in world history to an end. his name is robert o'neill. and he is the man who killed osama bin laden. the face we are looking at is the last face that osama bin laden saw on earth. >> yeah. i mean, if it was light enough, i was definitely the last person he saw. >> you trained on targets with his face on them. >> yeah. >> what was it like to kill the actual guy? >> it wasn't real. it was another guy in a house we shot. it didn't sink in. it didn't sink in for a while. >> has it sunk in now? >> yeah, it has now. i've thought about it every day for a number of years. i'm still trying to figure out if it's the worst or best thing i've ever done. >> how is it the best? >> we accomplished the mission and i was a big part of it. i was a part of it. >> how could it be the worst? >> i don't know what's going to happen. and that's somethin

this kind of the biggest show since we buzzed neptune in 1989. >> it's been awhile. >> we have already seen some of the data coming in from this exploration. what is caught your eye from the data? >> well, we have been waiting almost ten years are of course for this. and as you mentioned, we have not been too pluto before. it's the last planet, formally planet -- formerly planet, we have to explore. and it may be more interesting than we expected. we thought it was going to be interesting. an example of an object we have not looked up close. so it was very exciting for us all but, you know, particularly for the scientists of new new horizons. >> and tell us about that new horizons. in nine years, 3 billion miles. >> yes. quite a mission. it's not actually the longest time that it's taken us to get to another place in the solar system. but it certainly is the farthest. and ten years by anyone's clock is a long time to really hope that the path will the still be functional when it gets there. but so far it has. almost flawless. since it woke up last january from its multiyear sleep mode

authorities say neptune sergeant phillip siedel rammed his ex-wife's car last month and shot her several's car and rescued by police. >>> hillary clinton presidential campaign returned a contribution from allentown's mayor. it all has to do with the fbi raid at city hall and mayor ed pawlowski's home a couple weeks ago. friends of ed pawlowski made a $1,000 contribution to clinton's campaign in may. last week the clinton campaign refunded that money. >>> the senate wants changes made to the no child left behind education law. right now, the law requires mandatory testing in grades three through eight and again in high school. yesterday, the senate voted to keep the testing but give states more control over how to use the test to assess performance of schools, teachers and students. the house passed its own update last wednesday and now the chambers will have to reach a compromise. meantime, from our delaware bureau it appears public school students in delaware will not have a choice to opt out of standardized tests unless lawmakers do something. governor jack markell vetoed a bill that w

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. >> saturn neptune and urbanus and after that there's thousands of other worlds and pluto is the first among them. >> wow. >> so people call them kiper belt and i don't speech dutch. >> that's where the new horizons it's going down the kiper belt. i want to bring in miles on this. >> oh, great. >> because through the new horizons miles, we're getting images of plutdo and its five moons which by the way i didn't know that pluto five moons. >> the word moon when you're out that five. >> exactly. >> but miles, it seems like and feel free to weigh in chad and bill, it seems like so much could have gone wrong here. >> oh, man. >> and it's really miraculous that this was this machine, the new horizons was able to pull this off. what is your reaction to that and what could have gone wrong here? >> well just about anything that you can name from the launch which is highly risky all the way to running into some sort of debris along the way. this is the fastest spacecraft ever to leave our planet. it -- it made it to the moon our moon in about nine hours. it took u.s. astronauts and the apollo c

we saw a circular feature on neptune's moon triton that are not craters. >> reporter: as i log on to the new horizons website, it says the countdown to the new horizon phone home, i'm assuming that's when we're going to see these new images they took 90 minutes ago, 11 hours 35 minutes from now. there will be a public ceremony, a commemoration, if you will, a party here at nasa ames starting around 2:00. the public is invited. and i'm presuming that that is timing to this phone home moment when they'll see the new images. reporting live in mountain view, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> very cool. a long, long way. >> yeah, it's hard to believe. thank you very much, bob, it's taken this long, finally we're getting images of the dwarf  planet, pluto. >>> this is an image you don't have to wait to see of the sunol hills as we start off your tuesday morning. we could use a little bit of rain. i wonder if that satellite imagery will send back any precipitation. unlikely. we could use it. >> we could. and you know, we get the fog in the morning, at least we're seeing that now. but yes

we saw circular features on neptune's moon triton that are not craters. >> reporter: those images from thursday. we're still awaiting images the new horizons spacecraft is taking now as i speak. because it's so far away, over 3 billion miles, it will take time for radio transmissions to get back. they're expecting another three-and-a-half to four hours. if you're interested in celebrating the new horizons mission, nasa ames is inviting you to a commemoration later this afternoon, starting here at 2:00 in mountain view. reporting live here in mountain view, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> who doesn't love a good party? >> i'm interested in bringing champagne. >> stepping up the party a little bit. >>> tomorrow amazon is promising a party, a sale bigger than black friday. >> which is turning into an intergalactic competition. walmart has now moved to dull amazon's news with a sale of its own. >> should i be excited about this? >> amazon wants you to be. and i think they're getting walmart to help them get you excited. walmart is going to steal some of amazon's sales, laura. but what w

. >> it revolves around the same sun but it also crosses the orbit of neptune for 20 years.et does that. that's embarrassing. if you're a planet you should not be crossing other people's orbits. >> oh tom. nbc's tom costello covers nasa and joins me now. that was a great interview lester had with that gentleman. i was part of a facebook group when i was in college that said i remember back when pluto was a planet, that's how old i am. but now it's gotten this iconic status after this nasa mission. what have we learned? pluto is all the rage. >> you've got donald trump and al capone's vault and you've got jeb and hillary. are you ready to have your mind blown? >> let's do it. >> because that's what we're in for here. think about these numbers. you just rattled them off so casually. nine-year, 3 billion miles this thing has traveled all the way to the outer stretches of the solar system. and now what are we waiting for? we've got this first image. this was the zoom-in as it was starting to do the fly-by. we're waiting on the fly-by imagery. that actually happened yesterday, bu