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All posts for the day July 16th, 2015

Charon’s surprising, youthful, and varied terrainRemarkable new details of Pluto’s largest moon Charon are revealed in this image from New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), taken late on July 13, 2015 from a distance of 466,000 kilometers. The LORRI image has been combined with color information obtained by New Horizons’ Ralph instrument on July 13.

Source: First look at New Horizons’ Pluto and Charon images: “baffling in a very interesting and wonderful way” | The Planetary Society