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NASA released two black and white images of Pluto on Friday, billing them as the dwarf planet's "best close-ups that humans may see for decades."

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In all three black-and-white views, the apparent jagged bottom edge of Pluto is the result of image processing. The inset shows Pluto's orientation, illustrating its north pole, equator, and central meridian running from pole to pole. Image Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI

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It's even possible to see atmospheric rays that appear at dawn and dusk, as well as the bumpy, uneven outlines formed by features on Pluto's surface (see image in the gallery above). In other.

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01 Mission Dwarf Planet Pluto Overview Pluto is a complex and mysterious world with mountains, valleys, plains, craters, and apparently even glaciers. Discovered in 1930, Pluto was long considered our solar system's ninth planet.

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NASA today released the most detailed set of images ever taken of the distant dwarf planet Pluto. The images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show an icy and dark molasses-colored, mottled world that is undergoing seasonal changes in its surface color and brightness.

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Pluto New Horizons - News and images from the Pluto New Horizons team The PI's Perspective: On Final Approach to Ultima In this set of images taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard New Horizons, Ultima Thule emerges from behind stars and grows brighter as the spacecraft approaches it.

New artist's renderings of Pluto

Such icebergs are seen in several New Horizons images of Sputnik Planitia the largest of Pluto's known glaciers, which stretches more than 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) across—about the size of Oklahoma and Texas combined. 6. Pluto has heat convection cells on its giant glacier Sputnik. Zoom in close to the surface of Sputnik Planitia and.

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Pluto Basemap Click on the image for half-size version Download the full-size basemap. 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 was assembled from nearly all of the highest-resolution images obtained by the Long-Range Reconnaissance.

New artist's renderings of Pluto

Since its discovery in 1930 to this week's spacecraft flyby, pictures of Pluto have evolved from faint dots to crisp, stunning portraits. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto a few.

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Carrying powerful telescopic cameras that could spot features smaller than a football field, New Horizons sent back hundreds of images of Pluto and its moons that show how dynamic and fascinating their surfaces are. View the original black-and-white "landing" movie here. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel.

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New Horizons was the first spacecraft to explore Pluto and its five moons up close and, later, made the first close exploration of a Kuiper Belt Object.. Pictures of Pluto began to reveal distinct features by April 29, 2015, with detail increasing week by week into the approach. A final 23-second engine burn on June 29, 2015, accelerated New.

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Science goes behind the scenes as five scientists work through the night to make the best image of Pluto the world had ever seen. By the end of the day on 14 July, the stunning picture of Pluto above would become iconic—the most "liked" image ever on NASA's Instagram account. Even U.S. President Barack Obama would tweet it out.

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NASA's New Horizons flew by Pluto in 2006 and captured images. The mission reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet and showed its icy surface with a subsurface.

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This composite of enhanced color images of Pluto (lower right) and Charon (upper left), was taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft as it passed through the Pluto system on July 14, 2015..

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NASA's New Horizons space probe, now halfway to Pluto, will get sharper images of Pluto when it is six months away from a close flyby in 2015. Hubble's view isn't sharp enough to see craters or mountains, if they exist on the surface, but Hubble reveals a complex-looking and variegated world with white, dark-orange, and charcoal-black terrain..

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The image shows an area approximately 240 miles (390 kilometers) from top to bottom, including few visible craters. The image was taken at approximately 6:30 a.m. EDT on July 14, 2015, about 1.5 hours before closest approach to Pluto, from a range of 49,000 miles (79,000 kilometers). Credits: NASA-JHUAPL-SwRI