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New Horizons Captures Two Of Pluto's Smaller Moons

Posted on Tuesday, July 21, 2015
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New Horizons Captures Two Of Pluto's Smaller Moons
Image credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI

Uploader comment: Pluto’s moon Nix (left), has a reddish spot that has attracted the interest of mission scientists. The image shows features as small as approximately 2 miles (3 kilometers) across on Nix, which is estimated to be 26 miles (42 kilometers) long and 22 miles (36 kilometers) wide.


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