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Water Ice On Pluto

Posted on Thursday, October 8, 2015
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Water Ice On Pluto
Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

Uploader comment: Regions with exposed water ice are highlighted in blue in this composite image from New Horizons' Ralph instrument, combining visible imagery from the Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) with infrared spectroscopy from the Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array (LEISA). The strongest signatures of water ice occur along Virgil Fossa, just west of Elliot crater on the left side of the inset image, and also in Viking Terra near the top of the frame.


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