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PIA00442: Charon's First Official Feature Names

This annotated map projection from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft shows Charon, the largest of Pluto's five moons, annotated with its first set of official feature names.

Target Name:	Charon
Is a satellite of:	Pluto
Mission:	New Horizons
Spacecraft:	New Horizons
Product Size:	2380 x 1056 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	Johns Hopkins University/APL
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA00442.tif (6.035 MB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA00442.jpg (309.7 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

Map projection of Charon, the largest of Pluto's five moons, annotated with its first set of official feature names. With a diameter of about 755 miles, the Texas-sized moon is one of largest known objects in the Kuiper Belt, the region of icy, rocky bodies beyond Neptune.

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, designed, built, and operates the New Horizons spacecraft, and manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. The Southwest Research Institute, based in San Antonio, leads the science team, payload operations and encounter science planning. New Horizons is part of the New Frontiers Program managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Image Credit:

NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

Image Addition Date:

2018-04-11