#7 Pluto in True Color
This beautiful “Global Mosaic of Pluto in True Color” features the “Heart of Pluto” very prominently:
NASA’s feature on this photo says:
Four images from New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) were combined with color data from the Ralph instrument to create this sharper global view of Pluto. (The lower right edge of Pluto in this view currently lacks high-resolution color coverage.) The images, taken when the spacecraft was 280,000 miles (450,000 kilometers) away from Pluto, show features as small as 1.4 miles (2.2 kilometers). That’s twice the resolution of the single-image view captured on July 13 and revealed at the approximate time of New Horizons’ July 14 closest approach.
What an amazing mission New Horizons has been so far! And there is still more to come as the spacecraft continues to beam images from its flyby of the Pluto system over the next year.
Our huge thanks to NASA for all of the wonderful images and descriptions featured in this article, and for making the New Horizons mission possible.