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Last, Best Look at Pluto’s Far Side and Four Perplexing Spots: 2 Days Out from Flyby
New Horizons’ last look at Pluto’s Charon-facing hemisphere reveals the highest resolution view of four intriguing darks spots for decades to come. This image, taken early the morning of July 11, 2015, shows newly-resolved linear features above the equatorial region that intersect, suggestive of polygonal shapes. This image was captured when the spacecraft was 2.5 million miles (4 million kilometers) from Pluto. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI
Today (July 11) we got our last and best look at a quartet of perplexing dark spots on Pluto’s far side from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft – now just two days and two million miles (4 million km) out from history’s first ever up close flyby of the Pluto system on Tuesday, July 14.
The four puzzling spots (see above) are located on the hemisphere of Pluto which always faces its largest moon, Charon, and have captivated the scientists and public alike. Pluto and Charon are (…)
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Post tags: 4 dark spots on Pluto, Alan Stern, Atlas V, Charon, JHU, JHUAPL, NASA, New Horizons Pluto, Planet Pluto, Pluto and Charon, pluto charon, pluto flyby, Pluto System, ULA
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