New Horizons image of Pluto's largest moon Charon,taken just before the spcecraft's closest approach. This enhanced colour image combines blue,red and infrared images to reveal the variations across Charon's Pluto-facing surface. Most notably a reddish north polar region informally named Mordor Macula. A belt of fractures and canyons across the moon measuring more than 1,600 kilometres indicate a huge geological upheaval in the past. The belt also seems to separate smooth southern plains from varied northern terrain. New Horizons has spent nine and a half years travelling the nearly five billion kilometres to Pluto. Image obtained by the spacecraft's Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC) on 14th July 2015 | |
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Crédit: | Science Photo Library / APL, Southwest Research Institute / NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ. |
Taille de l’image : | 2957 px × 2957 px |
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