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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 2002 JF56 New Horizons
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The two 'spots' in this image are a composite of two images of asteroid 2002 JF56 taken on June 11 and June 12, 2006, with the Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera component of the New Horizons Ralph imager.
PIA09230:
New Horizons Tracks an Asteroid
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Jupiter New Horizons
 LORRI
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Jupiter Ahoy!
PIA09231:
Jupiter Ahoy!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Pluto New Horizons
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A white arrow marks Pluto in this NASA New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager picture taken Sept. 21, 2006. Pluto is little more than a faint point of light among a dense field of stars.
PIA09232:
New Horizons Sees Pluto (Sept. 21)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Pluto New Horizons
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A white arrow marks Pluto in this NASA New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager picture taken Sept. 24, 2006. Pluto is little more than a faint point of light among a dense field of stars.
PIA09233:
New Horizons Sees Pluto (Sept. 24)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Pluto New Horizons
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The Long Range Reconnaissance Imager on NASA New Horizons acquired images of the Pluto field three days apart in late September 2006, in order to see Pluto's motion against a dense background of stars.
PIA09234:
New Horizons Sees Pluto Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Jupiter New Horizons
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On Approach: Jupiter and Io
PIA09235:
On Approach: Jupiter and Io Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (12.97 MB)     JPEG (405.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Jupiter New Horizons
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A Day on Jupiter (Animation)
PIA09236:
A Day on Jupiter (Animation) Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (115.5 kB)     JPEG (4.937 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Jupiter New Horizons
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Ganymede's Shadow
PIA09237:
Ganymede's Shadow
Full Resolution:     TIFF (435.9 kB)     JPEG (13.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Jupiter New Horizons
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Moons around Jupiter
PIA09238:
Moons around Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Jupiter New Horizons
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Io and Ganymede
PIA09239:
Io and Ganymede
Full Resolution:     TIFF (536.6 kB)     JPEG (27.77 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Jupiter New Horizons
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Storms and Moons
PIA09240:
Storms and Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Jupiter New Horizons
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Jupiter Atmospheric Map
PIA09241:
Jupiter Atmospheric Map
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Jupiter New Horizons
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A 'Moving' Jupiter Global Map (Animation)
PIA09242:
A 'Moving' Jupiter Global Map (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Jupiter New Horizons
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Full Jupiter Mosaic
PIA09243:
Full Jupiter Mosaic
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Io New Horizons
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An Eruption on Io
PIA09244:
An Eruption on Io
Full Resolution:     TIFF (128.4 kB)     JPEG (9.155 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Ganymede New Horizons
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Ganymede
PIA09245:
Ganymede
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Europa New Horizons
 LORRI
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Europa
PIA09246:
Europa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Jupiter New Horizons
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The Little Red Spot: Closest View Yet
PIA09247:
The Little Red Spot: Closest View Yet
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Io New Horizons
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Tvashtar's Plume
PIA09248:
Tvashtar's Plume
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 J Rings New Horizons
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Jupiter's Rings
PIA09249:
Jupiter's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Io New Horizons
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A Brilliant Plume
PIA09250:
A Brilliant Plume
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Jupiter New Horizons
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A Look from LEISA
PIA09251:
A Look from LEISA
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Jupiter New Horizons
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Alice Views Jupiter and Io
PIA09252:
Alice Views Jupiter and Io
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.791 MB)     JPEG (60.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Jupiter New Horizons
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LORRI Takes an Even Closer Look at the Little Red Spot
PIA09253:
LORRI Takes an Even Closer Look at the Little Red Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Io New Horizons
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A Burst of Color
PIA09254:
A Burst of Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-02 Jupiter New Horizons
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Storm Spectra
PIA09255:
Storm Spectra
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.2 MB)     JPEG (54.24 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-09 Jupiter New Horizons
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Two Moons Meet over Jupiter
PIA09256:
Two Moons Meet over Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-09 Callisto New Horizons
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Capturing Callisto
PIA09258:
Capturing Callisto
Full Resolution:     TIFF (151.4 kB)     JPEG (10.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-17 Io New Horizons
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The Colors of the Night
PIA09264:
The Colors of the Night
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-01 Jupiter New Horizons
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Shepherd Moons
PIA09921:
Shepherd Moons Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-01 Jupiter New Horizons
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Jupiter's High-Altitude Clouds
PIA09339:
Jupiter's High-Altitude Clouds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-01 Jupiter New Horizons
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Probing Storm Activity on Jupiter
PIA09340:
Probing Storm Activity on Jupiter
Full Resolution:     TIFF (18.23 MB)     JPEG (257.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-01 Jupiter New Horizons
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Best Color Image of Jupiter's Little Red Spot
PIA09341:
Best Color Image of Jupiter's Little Red Spot
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.971 MB)     JPEG (80.41 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-01 Jupiter New Horizons
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Jupiter's Rings: Sharpest View
PIA09342:
Jupiter's Rings: Sharpest View
Full Resolution:     TIFF (6.083 MB)     JPEG (482.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-01 Jupiter New Horizons
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Jupiter's Moons: Family Portrait
PIA09352:
Jupiter's Moons: Family Portrait
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-01 Io New Horizons
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Io in Eclipse
PIA09353:
Io in Eclipse
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-01 Io New Horizons
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Io in Eclipse 2
PIA09354:
Io in Eclipse 2
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-01 Io New Horizons
 LORRI
Solid-State Imaging
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Io Surface Changes
PIA09355:
Io Surface Changes
Full Resolution:     TIFF (18.23 MB)     JPEG (261.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-01 Ganymede New Horizons
 LEISA
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Ganymede in Visible and Infrared Light
PIA09356:
Ganymede in Visible and Infrared Light
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-01 Io New Horizons
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Tvashtar Movie
PIA09357:
Tvashtar Movie Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-01 Io New Horizons
 LEISA
LORRI
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This montage demonstrates New Horizons' ability to observe the same target in complementary ways using its diverse suite of instruments.
PIA09358:
Io Through Different 'Eyes'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-01 Io New Horizons
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Variations in the appearance of the giant plume from the Tvashtar volcano on Jupiter's moon Io are seen in this composite of the best photos taken by the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) during its Jupiter flyby in late February.
PIA09359:
Tvashtar Composite
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-01 Io New Horizons
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New Horizons took this image of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io with its Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) at 15:15 Universal Time on February 28, 2007, nearly 10 hours after the spacecraft's closest approach to Jupiter.
PIA09360:
A "Plumefall" on Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-01 Europa New Horizons
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New Horizons took this image of the icy moon Europa rising above Jupiter's cloud tops with its Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) at 11:48 Universal Time on February 28, 2007, six hours after the spacecraft's closest approach to Jupiter.
PIA09361:
Europa Rising
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-05-14 Io New Horizons
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This five-frame sequence of New Horizons images captures the giant plume from Io's Tvashtar volcano. These were snapped by the probe's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) as the spacecraft flew past Jupiter earlier this year.
PIA09665:
Tvashtar in Motion Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-07-02 New Horizons
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This artist's conception shows NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander during its more than 9-month journey to Mars.
PIA10075:
New Horizons at Pluto (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-09 Jupiter New Horizons
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In this frame from a movie, put together from false-color images taken by the New Horizons Ralph instrument as the spacecraft flew past Jupiter in early 2007, show ammonia clouds (appearing as bright blue areas) as they form and disperse.
PIA09922:
Ammonia Clouds on Jupiter Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-09 Jupiter New Horizons
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Images taken by the New Horizons Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) of Jupiter's night side showed lightning strikes. Each 'strike' is probably the cumulative brightness of multiple strikes.
PIA10096:
Polar Lightning on Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-09 Jupiter New Horizons
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The top cloud layer on Jupiter is thought to consist of ammonia ice, but most of that ammonia 'hides' from spectrometers. It does not absorb light in the same way ammonia does.
PIA10076:
Ammonia Ice Clouds on Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-09 Jupiter New Horizons
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With its Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC), half of the Ralph instrument, New Horizons captured several pictures of mesoscale gravity waves in Jupiter's equatorial atmosphere.
PIA10097:
Atmospheric Waves
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-09 Jupiter New Horizons
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This is a composite of several images taken in several colors by the New Horizons Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera, or MVIC.
PIA10098:
Atmospheric Structure
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.213 MB)     JPEG (147.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-09 Io New Horizons
 LEISA
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A global map of Jupiter's moon Io derived from eight images taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on the New Horizons spacecraft, as it passed Jupiter on its way to Pluto in late February 2007.
PIA10099:
Changes on Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-09 Io New Horizons
 LEISA
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New Horizons took this montage of images of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, glowing in the dark of Jupiter's shadow, as the Pluto-bound spacecraft sped through the Jupiter system on Feb. 27, 2007.
PIA10100:
Io Eclipse Montage
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 LORRI
Ultraviolet Light
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The Tvashtar plume on Io, seen by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and by New Horizons.
PIA10101:
Tvashtar Montage
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.09 MB)     JPEG (63.22 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-09 Io New Horizons
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This is a montage of New Horizons images of Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io, taken during the spacecraft's Jupiter flyby in early 2007.
PIA10102:
Jupiter-Io Montage
Full Resolution:     TIFF (29.19 MB)     JPEG (232.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-10-16 Io New Horizons
 LEISA
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This beautiful image of the crescents of volcanic Io and more sedate Europa is a combination of two New Horizons images taken March 2, 2007, about two days after New Horizons made its closest approach to Jupiter.
PIA10103:
Io and Europa Meet Again
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.074 MB)     JPEG (9.716 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2008-01-24 Pluto New Horizons
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This image demonstrates the first detection of Pluto using the high-resolution mode on the NASA New Horizons Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager. The mode provides a clear separation between Pluto and numerous nearby background stars.
PIA10234:
Pluto in Hi-Def
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.263 MB)     JPEG (95.84 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2008-02-28 Io New Horizons
 MVIC
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This New Horizons image of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io was taken at 13:05 Universal Time during the spacecraft's Jupiter flyby on February 28, 2007. It shows the reddish color of the deposits from the giant volcanic eruption at the volcano Tvashtar.
PIA10249:
Seeing Red
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-27 Pluto New Horizons
 LORRI
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NASA's New Horizons team calibrates the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) by taking pictures of the open star cluster M7.
PIA07141:
Star Treatment
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.268 MB)     JPEG (63.98 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-27 Neptune New Horizons
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NASA's New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) observed Neptune on June 23, apl2010, as part of a test of the critical optical navigation Annual Checkout (ACO)-4.
PIA07433:
In Tune with Neptune
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.268 MB)     JPEG (94.55 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-27 Jupiter New Horizons
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NASA's New Horizons had an exciting flyby encounter with Jupiter in early 2007, and the spacecraft has been rapidly moving away from the giant planet ever since.
PIA07934:
LORRI Looks Back
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.268 MB)     JPEG (84.72 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2014-08-07 Pluto New Horizons
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This frame from an animation of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, was taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft as it raced toward Pluto in July 2014.
PIA11217:
A Moon over Pluto (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-02-04 Pluto New Horizons
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Pluto and Charon, the largest of Pluto's five known moons, seen Jan. 25 and 27, 2015, through the telescopic Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.
PIA09265:
A Long-Distance Look from LORRI
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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.
PIA09700:
First Pluto-Charon Color Image from New Horizons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-05-12 Pluto New Horizons
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The images detecting Kerberos and Styx shown here were taken with NASA's New Horizons' most sensitive camera, the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), from April 25-May 1, 2015.
PIA11774:
That Makes Five
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.519 MB)     JPEG (101.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2015-05-27 Pluto New Horizons
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This image of Pluto is part of series of New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) photos taken May 8-12, 2015; the image at left shows LORRI's view of Pluto just one month earlier.
PIA17803:
More Detail as New Horizons Draws Closer
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.36 MB)     JPEG (63.38 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2015-05-27 Pluto New Horizons
 LORRI
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This image of Pluto is part of series of New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) photos taken May 8-12, 2015; the image at left shows LORRI's view of Pluto just one month earlier.
PIA17804:
More Detail as New Horizons Draws Closer
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.36 MB)     JPEG (63.31 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2015-05-27 Pluto New Horizons
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This image of Pluto is part of series of New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) photos taken May 8-12, 2015; the image at left shows LORRI's view of Pluto just one month earlier.
PIA17805:
More Detail as New Horizons Draws Closer
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.36 MB)     JPEG (62.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2015-05-28 Pluto New Horizons
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This image shows the results of the New Horizons team's first search for potentially hazardous material around Pluto, conducted May 11-12, 2015, from a range of 47 million miles (76 million kilometers).
PIA17806:
So Far, All Clear: New Horizons Team Completes First Search for Pluto System Hazards
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-06-11 Pluto New Horizons
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This near-true color, barycentric, frame from a movie from NASA's New Horizons mission show Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, and the complex orbital dance of the two bodies, known as a double planet.
PIA19688:
Pluto and Charon in Color: Barycentric View (Animation) Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.001 MB)     JPEG (32.29 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2015-06-11 Pluto New Horizons
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This near-true color, 'Pluto-centric' frame from a movie from NASA's New Horizons mission show Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, and the complex orbital dance of the two bodies, known as a double planet.
PIA19689:
Pluto and Charon in Color: Pluto-Centric View (Animation) Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.001 MB)     JPEG (32.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2015-06-11 Pluto New Horizons
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This frame from a movie, composed of images taken by NASA's New Horizons, shows Pluto as it rotates about its axis. The images were taken May 28-June 3, 2015, from distances ranging from approximately 56 million kilometers to 48.5 million kilometers.
PIA17807:
Faces of Pluto (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-06-11 Pluto New Horizons
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These images, taken by New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), show four different 'faces' of Pluto as it rotates about its axis with a period of 6.4 days.
PIA19686:
Faces of Pluto
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.36 MB)     JPEG (91.96 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2015-06-22 Charon New Horizons
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These recent images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft show the discovery of significant surface details on Pluto's largest moon, Charon.
PIA19690:
A Dark Mystery on Charon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.36 MB)     JPEG (56.13 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2015-06-22 Pluto New Horizons
 LORRI
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These images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft show numerous large-scale features on Pluto's surface. When various large, dark and bright regions appear near limbs, they give Pluto a distinct, but false, non-spherical appearance.
PIA19691:
Features on the Close Approach Hemisphere
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.36 MB)     JPEG (78.63 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-01 Charon New Horizons
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This series of images taken by NASA's New Horizons' Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) shows how Pluto (left) and Charon (right) change in brightness as they rotate over 6.4 Earth days.
PIA19692:
True Color of Pluto and Charon Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.371 MB)     JPEG (126.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-01 Charon New Horizons
 LORRI
MVIC
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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.
PIA19693:
Two Faces of Pluto
Full Resolution:     TIFF (6.223 MB)     JPEG (48.11 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-01 Pluto New Horizons
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This illustration shows some of the final images used to determine that the coast is clear for NASA's New Horizons' flight through the Pluto system.
PIA19695:
All Clear for New Horizons
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.267 MB)     JPEG (130.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-03 Pluto New Horizons
 LORRI
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This image of Pluto and its big moon Charon was taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft at 04:15 (UTC) on July 1, 2015, and shows the clearest view yet of the sides of Pluto and Charon.
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A Remarkable World
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This image was created by NASA New Horizons to reveal color surface features of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon. It was taken between June 23 and June 29, 2015.
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Pluto and Charon Surfaces in Living Color (Animation) Animation Icon
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What color is Pluto? The answer, revealed in the first maps made from NASA's New Horizons data, turns out to be shades of reddish brown.
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The 'Other' Red Planet (Animation) Animation Icon
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This color version of NASA's New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) picture of Pluto taken July 3, 2015, was created by adding color data from the Ralph instrument gathered earlier in the mission.
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A Pluto Color Combo
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft obtained these three images of Pluto between July 1-3, 2015, as the spacecraft closed in on its July 14 encounter with the dwarf planet and its moons.
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Three Views of Pluto
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This map of Pluto, created from images taken from June 27-July 3, 2015, by NASA's New Horizons. This map gives mission scientists an important tool to decipher the complex and intriguing pattern of bright and dark markings on Pluto's surface.
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The Whale and the Donut
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This four-frame movie shows NASA's New Horizons' final deep search for hazardous material around Pluto, obtained on July 1, 2015. These data allow a highly sensitive search for any new moons.
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Final Hazard Search Animation Icon
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In the early morning hours of July 8, 2015, mission scientists received this new view of Pluto -- the most detailed yet returned by New Horizons. The image was taken on July 7, when the NASA spacecraft was just under 5 million miles (8 million kilometers)
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A Heart on Pluto
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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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This image of Charon was taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 9, 2015, from a range of 3.9 million miles (6.3 million kilometers) shows numerous bright spots, scattered over Charon's surface.
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Bright Spots on Charon
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This image of Pluto was taken by NASA's New Horizons' spacecraft at 4:18 UT on July 9, 2015, from a range of 3.9 million miles (6.3 million kilometers) reveals new details on the surface of Pluto.
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New Details on Pluto
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These circular maps shows the distribution of Pluto's dark and bright terrains as revealed by NASA's New Horizons mission prior to July 4, 2015. In these maps, the polar bright terrain is surrounded by a somewhat darker polar fringe.
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Dark and Bright Terrains of Pluto
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This July 13, 2015, image of Pluto and Charon is presented in false colors to make differences in surface material and features easy to see. It was obtained by the Ralph instrument on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.
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Pluto and Charon in False Color Show Compositional Diversity
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Pluto nearly fills the frame in this image from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, taken on July 13, 2015. This is the last and most detailed image sent to Earth before the spacecraft's closest approach to Pluto on July 14.
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Pluto's Big Heart in Color
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Like that of Charon, Hydra's surface is probably covered with water ice, the most abundant ice in the universe. This image, with a resolution of 2 miles per pixel, was taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft from approximately 400,000 miles away.
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Hydra Emerges from the Shadows
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The latest spectra from NASA's New Horizons Ralph instrument reveal an abundance of methane ice, but with striking differences from place to place across the frozen surface of Pluto.
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Pluto: The Ice Plot Thickens
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A swath of cliffs and troughs stretches about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) on Pluto's largest moon Charon are revealed in this image from NASA'as New Horizon's spacecraft, taken late on July 13, 2015.
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Charon's Surprising Youthful and Varied Terrain
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This close-up image from NASAs New Horizon spacecraft is of a region near Pluto equator reveals a giant surprise: a range of youthful mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet 3,500 meters above the surface of the icy body.
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The Icy Mountains of Pluto
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This image, taken by NASA's New Horizons, is of an area on Pluto's largest moon Charon featuring a captivating feature-a depression with a peak in the middle, shown here in the upper left corner of the inset.
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Close-Up of Charon’s ‘Mountain in a Moat’
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This annotated view from NASA's New Horizons of a portion of Pluto's Sputnik Planum (Sputnik Plain), named for Earth's first artificial satellite, shows an array of enigmatic features.
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Portion of Pluto's Sputnik Planum (Sputnik Plain)
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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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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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