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English: This is the highest-resolution color departure shot of Pluto's receding crescent from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, taken when the spacecraft was 120,000 miles (200,000 kilometers) away from Pluto. Shown in approximate true color, the picture was constructed from a mosaic of six black-and-white images from the Long Range ...
Pluto and Charon seen orbiting each other by New Horizons. The New Horizons spacecraft, which flew by Pluto in July 2015, is the first and so far only attempt to explore Pluto directly. Launched in 2006, it captured its first (distant) images of Pluto in late September 2006 during a test of the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager. [179]
The small blurry dots in the newly-released photo are Pluto and Charon, the largest of Pluto's moons. New Horizons captured the image from 71 million miles away. New Horizons captures its first ...
NASA launched the New Horizon spacecraft in 2006 to learn more about the icy dwarf planet Pluto. Here are some of the first photos from that mission, taken from between 125 and 115 million miles away.
LORRI captured this panchromatic greyscale image of Pluto on July 13, 2015 when still almost half a million miles away from the icy dwarf planet. Long Range Reconnaissance Imager ( LORRI ) is a telescope aboard the New Horizons spacecraft for imaging. [ 1 ]
2008-02-25 01:15 Dream out loud 1500×1501× (557188 bytes) replaced image of Pluto with plain circle since [[:Image:Pluto.jpg]] is non-free 2006-03-20 05:15 Brian0918 1500×1501× (733277 bytes) Rough comparison of the sizes of Earth and Pluto.
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