Charon in Enhanced Color
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto's big moon Charon just before closest approach on July 14, 2015. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the spacecraft’s Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC); the colors are processed to best highlight the variation of surface properties across Charon. Charon’s color palette is not as diverse as Pluto’s; most striking is the reddish north (top) polar region, informally named Mordor Macula. Charon is 754 miles (1,214 kilometers) across; this image resolves details as small as 1.8 miles (2.9 kilometers).
Image Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
Last Updated: Oct. 1, 2015
Editor: Sarah Loff
High-resolution images of Charon were taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, shortly before closest approach on July 14, 2015, and overlaid with enhanced color from the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC). Charon’s cratered uplands at the top are broken by series of canyons, and replaced on the bottom by the rolling plains of the informally named Vulcan Planum. The scene covers Charon’s width of 754 miles (1,214 kilometers) and resolves details as small as 0.5 miles (0.8 kilometers).
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
Last Updated: Oct. 2, 2015
Editor: Tricia Talbert
This composite of enhanced color images of Pluto (lower right) and Charon (upper left), was taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft as it passed through the Pluto system on July 14, 2015. This image highlights the striking differences between Pluto and Charon. The color and brightness of both Pluto and Charon have been processed identically to allow direct comparison of their surface properties, and to highlight the similarity between Charon’s polar red terrain and Pluto’s equatorial red terrain. Pluto and Charon are shown with approximately correct relative sizes, but their true separation is not to scale. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the spacecraft’s Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC).
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
Last Updated: Oct. 2, 2015
Editor: Tricia Talbert
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OCTUBRE 03, 2015.-
el dispensador dice:
mundos lejanos,
vibraciones de silencios orbitando,
sin pensamientos,
soledades de humanos,
algunos curioseando,
otros soñando,
pispeando realidades,
de paisajes olvidados...
mundos flotando,
como si la creación por allí no hubiese pasado...
eso es lo que crees,
en cada mundo que gira,
hay esferas "sonando".
OCTUBRE 03, 2015.-
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