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Pluto seen by New Horizons

author: Nasa/JHUAPL/SRI/Novapix

reference: a-plu03-00025

Image Size 300 DPI: 21 * 21 cm

Four images from 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 kilometers), twice the resolution of the single-image view taken on July 13.

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134340 PLUTO - 2015 - ASTRONOMY - DWARF PLANET - GLOBAL VIEW - NEW HORIZONS - PLUTO - PLUTOID - TNO - TRANSNEPTUNIAN OBJECT -