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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-09-06 Pluto New Horizons
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This image from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft shows an overlay of the first official Pluto feature names.
PIA21944:
First Official Pluto Feature Names
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-03-24 Pluto New Horizons
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This is the highest-resolution color departure shot of Pluto's receding crescent from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, taken when the spacecraft was 120,000 miles (200,000 kilometers) away from Pluto.
PIA21590:
Blue Rays: New Horizons' High-Res Farewell to Pluto
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-09-14 Pluto Chandra X-ray Observatory
New Horizons
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As NASA's New Horizons approached Pluto in late 2014 and then flew by the planet during the summer of 2015, NASA's Chandra obtained data during four separate observations. During each observation, Chandra detected low-energy X-rays from the small planet.
PIA21061:
X-Rays from Pluto
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-06-02 Pluto New Horizons
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took this stunning image of Pluto only a few minutes after closest approach on July 14, 2015. The image was obtained at a high phase angle, that is, with the sun on the other side of Pluto.
PIA20727:
Secrets Revealed from Pluto's 'Twilight Zone'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-05-18 Pluto New Horizons
Alice UVS
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This illustration shows how NASA's New Horizons' Alice ultraviolet spectrometer instrument 'watched' as two bright ultraviolet stars passed behind Pluto and its atmosphere.
PIA20590:
First Stellar Occultations Shed Additional Light on Pluto's Atmosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-05-18 Pluto New Horizons
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In April 2016, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft observed 1994 JR1, a 90-mile (145-kilometer) wide Kuiper Belt object (KBO) orbiting more than 3 billion miles (5 billion kilometers) from the sun.
PIA20589:
New Horizons Collects First Science on a Post-Pluto Object Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-05-02 Pluto New Horizons
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This shaded relief view from NASA's New Horizons of the region surrounding the left side of Pluto's heart-shaped feature, informally named Sputnik Planum, shows that the vast expanse of its icy surface.
PIA20657:
Elevation Map of Pluto's Sunken 'Heart'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-03 Pluto New Horizons
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this image of a chain of snow-capped mountains stretching across the dark expanse on Pluto informally named Cthulhu Regio.
PIA20477:
Methane Snow on Pluto's Peaks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-01-29 Pluto New Horizons
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After its close approach to Pluto in July 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft snapped this hauntingly beautiful image of the night side of Pluto's largest moon, Charon.
PIA20375:
Charon's Night Side
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-01-29 Pluto New Horizons
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This image from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is the first look at Pluto's atmosphere in infrared wavelengths. The blue ring around Pluto is caused by sunlight scattering from haze particles common in Pluto's atmosphere.
PIA20373:
Pluto's Blue Atmosphere in the Infrared
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-01-14 Pluto New Horizons
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This approximate true-color image from NASA's New Horizons shows hydrocarbons accumulating into small particles, a fraction of a micrometer in size, and scatter sunlight to make the bright blue haze seen in this image.
PIA20362:
Pluto's Haze in Bands of Blue
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-12-05 Pluto New Horizons
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In this highest-resolution image from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, great blocks of Pluto's water-ice crust appear jammed together in the informally named al-Idrisi mountains.
PIA20198:
The Mountainous Shoreline of Sputnik Planum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-10-29 Pluto New Horizons
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This image was made just 15 minutes after NASA's New Horizons spacecraft's closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, as the spacecraft looked back at Pluto toward the sun.
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A Full View of Pluto's Stunning Crescent
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-10-08 Pluto New Horizons
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Pluto's haze layer shows its blue color in this picture taken by NASA's New Horizons. The high-altitude haze is thought to be similar in nature to that seen at Saturn's moon Titan.
PIA19964:
Pluto's Blue Sky
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-09-17 Pluto New Horizons
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Just 15 minutes after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft looked back toward the sun and captured this near-sunset view of the rugged, icy mountains and flat ice plains extending to Pluto's horizon.
PIA19948:
Pluto's Majestic Mountains, Frozen Plains and Foggy Hazes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-09-17 Pluto New Horizons
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Just 15 minutes after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft looked back toward the sun and captured a near-sunset view of the rugged, icy mountains and flat ice plains extending to Pluto's horizon.
PIA19947:
Closer Look: Majestic Mountains and Frozen Plains
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-09-17 Pluto New Horizons
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In this small section of the larger crescent image of Pluto, taken by NASA's New Horizons just 15 minutes after the spacecraft's closest approach on July 14, 2015, the setting sun illuminates a fog or near-surface haze.
PIA19946:
Near-Surface Haze or Fog on Pluto
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-09-10 Charon New Horizons
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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).
PIA19932:
Charon's Complexity
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-09-10 Pluto New Horizons
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This image of Pluto from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, processed in two different ways, shows how Pluto's bright, high-altitude atmospheric haze produces a twilight that softly illuminates the surface before sunrise and after sunset.
PIA19931:
Pluto in Twilight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-09-10 Pluto New Horizons
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Two different versions of an image of Pluto's haze layers, taken by NASA's New Horizons as it looked back at Pluto's dark side nearly 16 hours after close approach, from a distance of 480,000 miles (770,000 kilometers).
PIA19880:
Pluto's Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-08-28 Pluto New Horizons
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This frame from an animation is a dramatic view of the Pluto system is as NASA's New Horizons spacecraft saw it in July 2015.
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Flying Past Pluto (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-17 Pluto New Horizons
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Artist's concept of the interaction of the solar wind (the supersonic outflow of electrically charged particles from the Sun) with Pluto's predominantly nitrogen atmosphere based on NASA's New Horizons' SWAP instrument.
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Artist's Concept of the Interaction of the Solar Wind
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-17 Pluto New Horizons
Alice UVS
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This figure shows how the Alice instrument onboard NASA's New Horizons spacecraft count rate changed over time during the sunset and sunrise observations.
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Alice Solar Occultation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-17 Pluto New Horizons
Alice UVS
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This figure shows the locations of the sunset and sunrise solar occultations observed by the Alice instrument on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.
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Pluto Solar Occultations
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-09 Pluto New Horizons
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This artist's concept shows NASA's fleet of observatories busily gathering data before and after July 14, 2015 to help piece together what we know about Pluto, and what features New Horizons data might help explain.
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NASA Missions Have Their Eyes Peeled on Pluto (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-06-08 Pluto 900x900x3
This artist's concept of the frosty surface of Pluto with Charon and our sun as backdrops illustrates that while sunlight is much weaker than it is here on Earth, it isn't as dark as you might expect.
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Pluto at High Noon (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-14 Pluto New Horizons
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This image of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, was taken by the Ralph color imager aboard NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on April 9 and downlinked to Earth the following day.
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First Pluto-Charon Color Image from New Horizons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-04 Pluto Hubble Space Telescope
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This is the most detailed view to date of the entire surface of the dwarf planet Pluto, as constructed from multiple NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken from 2002 to 2003.
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Hubble Maps of Pluto Show Surface Changes Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-03-28 Pluto Hubble Space Telescope
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This is the clearest view yet of the distant planet Pluto and its moon, Charon, as revealed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The image was taken by the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera on February 21, 1994.
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Hubble Portrait of the "Double Planet" Pluto & Charon
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