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Pluto seen by New Horizons

author: Nasa/JHUAPL/SRI/Novapix

reference: a-plu03-00027

Image Size 300 DPI: 16 * 9 cm

Backlit by the sun, atmospheric haze rings Pluto’s silhouette like a luminous halo in this image taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft around midnight EDT on July 15. This global portrait of the atmosphere was captured when the spacecraft was about 1.25 million miles (2 million kilometers) from Pluto and shows structures as small as 12 miles across. The image was delivered to Earth on July 23.

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