Full Resolution Hallelujah!
A year after encounter, Tod Lauer wrote this to the team:
"The Arrokoth encounter was an explosion of energy the likes of which I had never seen. Pluto was a stately cruise by comparison. The parts that stick with me the most are the incredible jam sessions we had in the GGI room. You recognize great musicians by how they speak uniquely through their instruments. So it was when we gathered to put all the pieces together. So many different voices and different ways of thinking. Some of us viewed the incoming data with strong rigor and deep skepticism against quick pat answers, while others bounded about with intuitive leaps. Some were shy, some bold. Some spoke only to provide deep knowledge, others sketched out where knowledge was needed. And all of this intersected in myriad ways with our particular technical specialties. Overall I was startled by how quickly we were able to sketch a good first draft of what Arrokoth was trying to tell us."
"I think the best summary of the encounter is this incredible tableau that Henry Throop captured. All of us deep in the moment of discovery, lost in our thoughts, probably all different in detail, but common in trying to figure out what to do next."
