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Charon’s Surprising Youthful And Varied Terrain

Posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2015
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Charon’s Surprising Youthful And Varied Terrain
Image credit: NASA-JHUAPL-SwRI

Uploader comment: Remarkable new details of Pluto’s largest moon Charon are revealed in this image from New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), taken late on July 13, 2015 from a distance of 289,000 miles (466,000 kilometers). A swath of cliffs and troughs stretches about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) from left to right, suggesting widespread fracturing of Charon’s crust, likely a result of internal processes.


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