{"id":16177,"date":"2015-07-16T20:35:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T12:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/scientists-share-first-close-up-snapshot-of-charon\/"},"modified":"2015-07-16T20:35:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T12:35:25","slug":"scientists-share-first-close-up-snapshot-of-charon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/scientists-share-first-close-up-snapshot-of-charon\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists share first close-up snapshot of Charon"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7802\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7802\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7802\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CHARON-GRAPHIC-7-16.jpg\" alt=\"Credit: NASA\/JHUAPL\/SWRI\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CHARON-GRAPHIC-7-16.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CHARON-GRAPHIC-7-16-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CHARON-GRAPHIC-7-16-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CHARON-GRAPHIC-7-16-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CHARON-GRAPHIC-7-16-678x381.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view of Charon in the inset of this image was taken by New Horizons\u2019 LORRI camera around 6:30 a.m. EDT (1030 GMT) on July 14, less than 90 minutes before closest approach to Pluto.Credit: NASA\/JHUAPL\/SWRI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A day after revealing mind-boggling ice mountains on Pluto, researchers from NASA\u2019s New Horizons mission on Thursday released a detailed view of its companion Charon, showing a frozen, lightly-cratered world with an intriguing landform scientists have dubbed a \u2018mountain in a moat.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The long-range imager aboard New Horizons recorded the view of Charon near the moon\u2019s day-night terminator about 90 minutes before Tuesday\u2019s flyby of Pluto. New Horizons was about 49,000 miles (79,000 kilometers) away when it captured the photo.<\/p>\n<p>The feature at the upper left of the inset is a mysterious mountain surrounded by a depression, NASA says.<\/p>\n<p>New Horizons is downlinking data in compressed formats, so scientists expect sharper views in the coming weeks. It will take 16 months for all of the flyby data to trickle back to Earth at a few kilobits per second.<\/p>\n<p>NASA plans to release more science data and imagery from New Horizons\u2019 encounter in a press conference at 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT) Friday.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The view of Charon in the inset of this image was taken by New Horizons\u2019 LORRI camera around 6:30 a.m. EDT (1030 GMT) on July 14, less than 90 minutes before closest approach to Pluto.Credit: NASA\/JHUAPL\/SWRI A day after revealing mind-boggling ice mountains on Pluto, researchers from NASA\u2019s New Horizons mission on Thursday released a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2172,2174,2848],"class_list":["post-16177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-charon","tag-new-horizons","tag-pluto"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}