Tag: LORRI

  • Rugged swath of Pluto now resolved in color

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    A cosmic shoreline is pictured here, where the vast icy plain informally named Sputnik Planum borders rugged mountains made of water ice blocks standing up to 1.5 miles (2.5 kilometers) tall. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute A high-resolution scan of Pluto from the New Horizons spacecraft published last week is now…

  • NASA’s Pluto probe takes new pictures of target

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    A view of Pluto and its moon Charon from the New Horizons spacecraft’s LORRI camera. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI Less than six months from a historic close-up of Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft has glimpsed its distant target at a range of 126 million miles, and better pictures are coming. The images show Pluto and its moon…