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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 11:47 am
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 5:22 pm
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 1:18 am
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Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
I'm very excited to show everyone one of the first closeup photos of the Planet Pluto taken by the New Horizons spacecraft. The New Horizons spacecraft has finally finished it's 9 and a half year and 3+ billion miles journey to Pluto!! This is the last and most detailed image of Pluto sent to Earth before the moment of closest approach, which was at 7:49 a.m. EDT 7-14-15. More images from the Pluto Flyby will be processed and released on Wednesday, July 15.
Pluto nearly fills the frame in this image from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, taken on July 13, 2015, when the spacecraft was 476,000 miles (768,000 kilometers) from the surface. The color image has been combined with lower-resolution color information from the Ralph instrument that was acquired earlier on July 13.
This view is dominated by the large, bright feature informally named the “heart,” which measures approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) across. The heart borders darker equatorial terrains, and the mottled terrain to its east (right) are complex. However, even at this resolution, much of the heart’s interior appears remarkably featureless—possibly a sign of ongoing geologic processes.
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