I realise that this is probably a troll, but right now (http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/) New Horizons is 14 million kilometres from Pluto. That's 12 light seconds. By comparison, the moon is 1.5 light seconds away.
That picture you were complaining about was taken on 2015-01-25, over six months ago. The vehicle's moving at 16 km/s, which means that it was an additional 290 million kilometres away then. That's nearly a thousand light seconds away. Sixteen light minutes. By comparison, that's the entire width of Earth's orbit.
We need the frickin' Hubble Space Telescope to take good pictures of planets at that sort of distance. It's a tribute to the New Horizon team's technical skill that they managed to resolve Pluto and Charon at all in that picture.
I'm afraid that on HN the combination of "Grar guberment", "I don't understand technology more complex than CRUD applications", and a bonus racial slur merely invoke Poe's Law for me.
That picture you were complaining about was taken on 2015-01-25, over six months ago. The vehicle's moving at 16 km/s, which means that it was an additional 290 million kilometres away then. That's nearly a thousand light seconds away. Sixteen light minutes. By comparison, that's the entire width of Earth's orbit.
We need the frickin' Hubble Space Telescope to take good pictures of planets at that sort of distance. It's a tribute to the New Horizon team's technical skill that they managed to resolve Pluto and Charon at all in that picture.