AMAZING IMAGES OF PLUTO
Added on: 27th Dec 2015
FOUR IMAGES FROM NEW HORIZONS’ LONG RANGE
RECONNAISSANCE IMAGER WERE COMBINED WITH
COLOUR DATA FROM THE RALPH INSTRUMENT TO
CREATE THIS SHARPER GLOBAL VIEW OF PLUTO.
ONE OF THE LATEST HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGES OF
PLUTO TAKEN BY NASA’S NEW HORIZONS SPACECRAFT.
JUST 15 MINUTES AFTER ITS CLOSEST APPROACH TO
PLUTO ON JULY 14, 2015, THE SPACECRAFT LOOKED
BACK TOWARD THE SUN AND CAPTURED THIS NEAR-SUNSET
VIEW OF THE RUGGED, ICY MOUNTAINS AND FLAT ICE
PLAINS EXTENDING TO PLUTO’S HORIZON.
THIS PICTURE ILLUSTRATES THE INCREDIBLE DIVERSITY
OF SURFACE REFLECTIVITIES AND GEOLOGICAL
LANDFORMS ON THE DWARF PLANET.
NEW CLOSE-UP IMAGES OF A REGION NEAR PLUTO’S
EQUATOR REVEAL A GIANT SURPRISE: A RANGE
OF YOUTHFUL MOUNTAINS.
BACKLIT BY THE SUN, PLUTO’S ATMOSPHERE RINGS ITS
SILHOUETTE LIKE A LUMINOUS HALO IN THIS IMAGE TAKEN
BY NASA’S NEW HORIZONS SPACECRAFT AROUND
MIDNIGHT EDT ON JULY 15.
THE SETTING SUN ILLUMINATES A FOG OR NEAR-SURFACE
HAZE, WHICH IS CUT BY THE PARALLEL SHADOWS OF
MANY LOCAL HILLS AND SMALL MOUNTAINS.
ANOTHER STUNNING VIEW OF PLUTO´S HORIZON
ILLUMINATED BY THE SUNSET.
ONE OF THE SHARPEST AND MOST DETAILED PICTURES
OF PLUTO´S LARGEST MOON CHARON.
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