To
mark the two-year anniversary of NASA's New Horizons' historic fly-by
of the Pluto system on July 14, 2015, the agency has released
high-resolution natural-colour images of Pluto and its largest moon
Charon.
These colour images were created from refined
calibrations of data gathered by New Horizons' Multispectral Visible
Imaging Camera (MVIC). The processing created images that approximate
the colours that a human eye would perceive.
The image of Pluto
seen above was taken as the spacecraft approached the dwarf planet on
July 14, 2015, from a range of approximately 35,445 kilometres (22,025
miles).
Read the original NASA caption here: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/933/true-colors-of-pluto/
Image Credit:
NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute / Alex Parker
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Thursday, August 9, 2018
NASA Releases True Colour Images of Pluto and Its Moon Charon
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