This is like the coup de grâce for Pluto, then New Horizons dropping the ball.
It's like a checkmate in one, then picking up the wrong piece.
It's like... well, you get the idea. 
(I knew they shouldn't have touched it when they did that last burn.)
OK, this sounds really promising. Johns Hopkins just issued a press release saying it's been determined that there is no hardware or software fault on New Horizons. They think the incident was triggered by a timing flaw in part of the command sequence during one of the operations preparing for the flyby. There aren't any other similar operations scheduled in the remainder of the Pluto encounter.
Science operations will be scheduled to resume on the 7th. The missed images and data during the down period will not have any effect on any of the primary mission objectives and only minimal effects on lesser objectives.
Yea!!
Cool.
Cool!
Just recently New Horizons confirmed the presence of methane on Pluto, backing an observation first made in 1976. Though the reddish tint of Pluto looks similar to Mars, the origin is likely to be completely different. Rather than being due to iron oxide on the surface, Pluto's redness is thought to be from compounds in the atmosphere formed by reaction of various organic molecules in sunlight and solar rays. The contrasting darkness of Charon could be due just to a lack of an organic-rich atmosphere.
Interesting.
This is fantastic! I am surprised by how heterogeneously albedinous it looks.
Nothing torrential, but good solid rain for about 5 hours. It slacked off ~30 minutes ago with 1.63" recorded a couple miles down the road, most of which fell during the 1st 3 hours.
Maybe kco can get something like this.
so far.... 8mm today, total 15.4mm (5 days) average for this month 146mm 17days.
Less than 7 full days to Pluto! The flyby approach sequence should be engaging somewhere within an hour or so of right now.
There's 4, possibly 5 storms in the Pacific/Indian ocean, the're all headed for China, and one of them is the size of Alaska.
Dang!
Latest image of Pluto, received today (July 8), first image since the software shutdown mishap.
Latest projection map of Pluto, combing data from several sources. The region in the center of the map is the portion that will be observed much more closely during the flyby.
The large dark region paralleling the equator on the left is being referred to as "the whale", and the little whitish circular feature near the left tip of the whale is "the donut". The whale is about 3,000 km long and is just about the darkest feature seen on the surface.
A day late and a dollar short!
Yeah, probably-- or maybe-- no updates yet. It could still be that this is a problem that is completely fixable and better taken care of. We'll see what they say. The main reason for the slow troubleshooting is the 9+ hour signal round trip between Earth and New Horizons. Including time to look over what gets sent back, that means only a couple rounds of communication can be done each day.