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First Pluto Charon Color Image from New Horizons

Posted on Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Uploaded by Waspie_Dwarf
First Pluto Charon Color Image from New Horizons
Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

Uploader comment: This image of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, was taken by the Ralph color imager aboard NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on April 9 and downlinked to Earth the following day. It is the first color image ever made of the Pluto system by a spacecraft on approach.


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