Flying over Charon

Images from NASA New Horizons spacecraft were used to create a flyover video (PIA19965) of Pluto largest moon, Charon. The flight starts with the informally named Mordor dark region near Charon north pole. In the video, the camera then moves south to a vast chasm, descend...

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA19965
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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Two Faces of Pluto

This pair of approximately true color images of Pluto and its big moon Charon, taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, highlight the dramatically different appearance of different sides of the dwarf planet, and reveal never-before-seen details on Pluto's varied surface. ...

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA19693
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA19932
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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Pluto Hulk-like Moon Charon: A Possible Ancient Ocean?

Images from NASA New Horizons mission suggest that Pluto largest moon, Charon, once had a subsurface ocean that has long since frozen and expanded, pushing out on the moon surface.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA20467

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA19704
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA19932
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA21860
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA21129
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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: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA19856
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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