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  1. Charon's Surface in Detail

    On July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made its historic flight through the Pluto system. This detailed, high-quality global mosaic of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, was assembled from nearly all of the highest-resolution images obtained by the Long-Range ...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA218
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  2. KSC-05pd2632A

    KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, technicians monitor New Horizons as it is lowered onto a transporter for its move to Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. New Horizons carries seven scientific instruments that will characterize the global geology and geomorphology of Pluto and its moon Charon, map their surface compositio...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-05

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  3. Heeft er in het recente verleden vloeibaar stikstof over Pluto gestroomd?
    Planeetonderzoekers die beelden van de New Horizons analyseerden, hebben bewijs gevonden dat er mogelijk nog steeds vloeibare stikstof omhoog sijpelt
    #dwergplaneet #gletsjer #NewHorizons #pluro #SputnikPlanitia #stikstof #TombaughRegio #VloeibaarStikstof
    kuuke.nl/heeft-er-in-het-recen

  4. Ammonia Ice Clouds on Jupiter

    The top cloud layer on Jupiter is thought to consist of ammonia ice, but most of that ammonia hides from spectrometers. It does not absorb light in the same way ammonia does.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA100
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #jupiter #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  5. KSC-05pd2645

    KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Technicians monitor the fairing enclosing New Horizons as it is positioned atop a Lockheed Martin Atlas V launch vehicle in the Vertical Integration Facility at Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. New Horizons carries seven scientific instruments that will characterize the global geology and geomorphology of Pluto and its moon Charon...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-05

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  6. Charon Complexity

    This image of Pluto's largest moon Charon, taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft 10 hours before its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015 from a distance of 290,000 miles (470,000 kilometers), is a recently downlinked, much higher quality version of a Charon image ...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA199
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #charon #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  7. Charon Complexity

    This image of Pluto's largest moon Charon, taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft 10 hours before its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015 from a distance of 290,000 miles (470,000 kilometers), is a recently downlinked, much higher quality version of a Charon image ...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA199
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #charon #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  8. Charon Complexity

    This image of Pluto's largest moon Charon, taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft 10 hours before its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015 from a distance of 290,000 miles (470,000 kilometers), is a recently downlinked, much higher quality version of a Charon image ...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA199
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #charon #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  9. Charon Complexity

    This image of Pluto's largest moon Charon, taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft 10 hours before its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015 from a distance of 290,000 miles (470,000 kilometers), is a recently downlinked, much higher quality version of a Charon image ...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA199
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #charon #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  10. Charon Complexity

    This image of Pluto's largest moon Charon, taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft 10 hours before its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015 from a distance of 290,000 miles (470,000 kilometers), is a recently downlinked, much higher quality version of a Charon image ...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA199
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #charon #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  11. Faces of Pluto Animation

    This frame from a movie, composed of images taken by NASA New Horizons, shows Pluto as it rotates about its axis. The images were taken May 28-June 3, 2015, from distances ranging from approximately 56 million kilometers to 48.5 million kilometers.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA178
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  12. Atmospheric Structure

    This is a composite of several images taken in several colors by the New Horizons Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera, or MVIC.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA100
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #jupiter #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  13. Charon's First Official Feature Names

    Map projection of Charon, the largest of Pluto's five moons, annotated with its first set of official feature names. With a diameter of about 755 miles, the Texas-sized moon is one of largest known objects in the Kuiper Belt, the region of icy, rocky bo...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA004
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #charon #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  14. A Binary Planet in Color

    This image from NASA New Horizons highlights the contrasting appearance of the two worlds: Charon is mostly gray, with a dark reddish polar cap, while Pluto shows a wide variety of subtle color variations. Pluto and Charon are shown in enhanced color in this image, ...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA198
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #charon #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  15. KSC-05pd2637

    KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - New Horizons arrives at the Vertical Integration Facility at Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station where buildup of its Lockheed Martin Atlas V launch vehicle is complete. New Horizons carries seven scientific instruments that will characterize the global geology and geomorphology of Pluto and its moon Charon, map their surface composit...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-05

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  16. New Horizons Very Best View of Pluto Mosiac

    This mosaic is composed of the sharpest views of Pluto that NASA's New Horizons spacecraft obtained during its flyby of the distant planet on July 14, 2015. The pictures are part of a sequence taken near New Horizons' closest approach to Pluto, wit...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA202
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  17. New Horizons Very Best View of Pluto Mosiac

    This mosaic is composed of the sharpest views of Pluto that NASA's New Horizons spacecraft obtained during its flyby of the distant planet on July 14, 2015. The pictures are part of a sequence taken near New Horizons' closest approach to Pluto, wit...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA202
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  18. New Horizons Very Best View of Pluto Mosiac

    This mosaic is composed of the sharpest views of Pluto that NASA's New Horizons spacecraft obtained during its flyby of the distant planet on July 14, 2015. The pictures are part of a sequence taken near New Horizons' closest approach to Pluto, wit...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA202
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  19. New Horizons Very Best View of Pluto Mosiac

    This mosaic is composed of the sharpest views of Pluto that NASA's New Horizons spacecraft obtained during its flyby of the distant planet on July 14, 2015. The pictures are part of a sequence taken near New Horizons' closest approach to Pluto, wit...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA202
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  20. New Horizons Very Best View of Pluto Mosiac

    This mosaic is composed of the sharpest views of Pluto that NASA's New Horizons spacecraft obtained during its flyby of the distant planet on July 14, 2015. The pictures are part of a sequence taken near New Horizons' closest approach to Pluto, wit...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA202
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  21. Pluto’s Atmosphere May Finally Be Starting to Collapse

    Pluto’s orbit around the Sun is a long, elliptical journey that lasts 248 Earth years. Right now, Pluto…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #NewHorizons #PlanetaryScience #Pluto
    newsbeep.com/us/803015/

  22. Pluto’s Atmosphere May Finally Be Starting to Collapse

    Pluto’s orbit around the Sun is a long, elliptical journey that lasts 248 Earth years. Right now, Pluto…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #NewHorizons #PlanetaryScience #Pluto
    newsbeep.com/us/803015/

  23. Pluto and it's moon Charon Shine in False Color

    **This image was taken at 3:38 a.m. EDT on July 13, one day before New Horizons’ closest approach to Pluto.** New Horizons has obtained impressive new images of Pluto and its large moon Charon that highlight their compositional diversity. These are not actual color images of Pluto and Charon—they are shown here in exaggerated colors t...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/GSFC_2

    #charon #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  24. Polar Lightning on Jupiter

    Images taken by the New Horizons Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager LORRI of Jupiter night side showed lightning strikes. Each trike is probably the cumulative brightness of multiple strikes.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA100
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #jupiter #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  25. Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto Heart

    At center left of Pluto vast heart-shaped feature "Tombaugh Regio" -- lies a vast, craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100 million years old, and is possibly still being shaped by geologic processes as seen by NASA New Horizons spacecra...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA198
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  26. Landslides in a Charon Chasm

    perspective view of Charon's informally named "Serenity Chasm" consists of topography generated from stereo reconstruction of images taken by New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) and Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC), supplemented by ...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA211
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #charon #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  27. Landslides in a Charon Chasm

    perspective view of Charon's informally named "Serenity Chasm" consists of topography generated from stereo reconstruction of images taken by New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) and Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC), supplemented by ...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA211
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #charon #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  28. Landslides in a Charon Chasm

    perspective view of Charon's informally named "Serenity Chasm" consists of topography generated from stereo reconstruction of images taken by New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) and Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC), supplemented by ...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA211
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #charon #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  29. Landslides in a Charon Chasm

    perspective view of Charon's informally named "Serenity Chasm" consists of topography generated from stereo reconstruction of images taken by New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) and Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC), supplemented by ...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA211
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #charon #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  30. Landslides in a Charon Chasm

    perspective view of Charon's informally named "Serenity Chasm" consists of topography generated from stereo reconstruction of images taken by New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) and Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC), supplemented by ...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA211
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #charon #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  31. KSC-06pd0089

    KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. — Photographers and spectators watch NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, trailing fire and smoke from the Atlas V rocket that propels it, as it roars into the cloud-scattered sky. Liftoff was on time at 2 p.m. EST from Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. This was the third launch attempt in as many days after scrubs due to w...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-06

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  32. Pluto Color Map

    This new, detailed global mosaic color map of Pluto is based on a series of three color filter images obtained by the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera aboard New Horizons during the NASA spacecraft's close flyby of Pluto in July 2015. The mosaic shows how Pluto's lar...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA117
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  33. A Dark Mystery on Charon

    These recent images show the discovery of significant surface details on Pluto's largest moon, Charon. They were taken by the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on June 18, 2015. The image on the left is the original image, displayed at four times...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA196
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #charon #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  34. Global Mosaics of Pluto and Charon

    Global mosaics of Pluto and Charon projected at 300 meters (985 feet) per pixel that have been assembled from most of the highest resolution images obtained by the Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) and the Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC)...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA218
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #charon #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  35. Portion of Pluto Sputnik Planum Sputnik Plain

    This annotated view of a portion of Pluto's Sputnik Planum (Sputnik Plain), named for Earth's first artificial satellite, shows an array of enigmatic features. The surface appears to be divided into irregularly shaped segments that are ringed by ...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA197
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #pluto #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  36. True Color of Pluto and Charon

    This series of images taken by NASA's New Horizons' Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) shows how Pluto and Charon change in brightness as they rotate over 6.4 Earth days.The central panel shows the true color of Pluto (left) and Charon (right) during ...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA196
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #charon #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  37. Bright Spots on Charon

    This image of Charon was taken by New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) at 4:23 UT on July 9, 2015, from a range of 3.9 million miles (6.3 million kilometers). It reveals fascinating detail, never before seen, on the surface of Pluto's giant moon, whi...

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA197
    Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

    #charon #newhorizons #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics