Pluto Full Color
Explore the true color version of Pluto's giant moon, Charon. More about New Horizons, the first mission to explore Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. More about Pluto, the best known world in the Kuiper Belt.
More on the Kuiper Belt, a vast ring of icy debris beyond the orbit of Neptune. This natural-color image of Pluto results from refined calibration of data gathered by New Horizons' color Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC). The processing creates images that would approximate the colors that the human eye would perceive, bringing them closer to "true color" than the images released near the encounter.
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Captions English New Horizon's true color view of Pluto as it approached the planet on July 14, 2015 Portuguese Imagem de Plutão tirada pela missão não tripulada New Horizons da NASA Malayalam പ്ലൂട്ടോ Hindi प्लूटो Chinese (China) 冥王星图像 Chinese 冥王星图像 Arabic بلوتو هو أكبر كوكب قزم يحتوي على خمسة أقمار. What color is Pluto, really? It took some effort to figure out. Even given all of the images sent back to Earth when the robotic New Horizons spacecraft sped past Pluto in 2015, processing these multi-spectral frames to approximate what the human eye would see was challenging.
The result featured here, released three years after the raw data was acquired by New Horizons, is the highest. It took over 15 months to downlink the mission's full dataset of 6.25 gigabytes due to the spacecraft's distance. (The lower right edge of Pluto in this view currently lacks high-resolution color coverage.) The images, taken when the spacecraft was 450,000 kilometers (280,000 miles) away, show features as small as 2.2 kilometers (1.4 miles), twice the resolution of the single.
Pluto Wallpaper (58+ images)
Pluto's surface sports a remarkable range of subtle colors, enhanced in this view to a rainbow of pale blues, yellows, oranges, and deep reds. Many landforms have their own distinct colors, telling a complex geological and climatological story that scientists have only just begun to decode. Four images from NASA's New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) were combined with color data from the Ralph instrument to create this global view of Pluto.
(The lower right edge of Pluto in this view currently lacks high-resolution color coverage.) The images, taken when the spacecraft was 280,000 miles (450,000 kilometers) away, show features as small as 1.4 miles (2.2. Color map of Pluto This map contains data from New Horizons' color imager, Ralph MVIC, in a version processed about a year after the Pluto flyby. The color map shows strong variations in Pluto's color with latitude, from its orangish north to its pinkish midlatitudes to its very dark equatorial band, with Sputnik planitia sitting athwart the band.
Color Of Pluto Planet
Two of Pluto's midsize moons may be made of the guts of its largest moon, Charon, new research suggests.
