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Pluto nearly fills the frame in this image from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. The image was taken on July 13,...
Reddish planet with a heart shape on it
NASA's New Horizons captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Charon just before the spacecraft made its closest approach to...
A full globe image of Pluto's moon, Charon. The moon is gray with a reddish spot at the top in this image.
This is the most detailed view to date of the entire surface of the dwarf planet Pluto, as constructed from...
Three views of Pluto. Three mottled circles in colors of yellow, grey, rusty-orange, and black.
Artist's concept of Pluto system
This artist's concept above shows the Pluto system from the surface of one of its moons.
This image of haze layers above Pluto limb was taken by NASA New Horizons spacecraft. About 20 haze layers are...
This image of haze layers above Pluto limb was taken by NASA New Horizons spacecraft. About 20 haze layers are seen.
In June 2014, Hubble discovered Ultima Thule, the farthest object in our solar system ever explored up close by a...
composite image of Ultima Thule from Hubble
One of the strangest landforms spotted by NASA New Horizons spacecraft when it flew past Pluto last July was the...
One of the strangest landforms spotted by NASA New Horizons spacecraft when it flew past Pluto last July was the bladed terrain just east of Tombaugh Regio, the informal name given to Pluto large heart-shaped surface feature.
In addition to transmitting new high-resolution images and other data on the familiar close-approach hemispheres of Pluto and Charon, NASA's...
NASA New Horizons spacecraft is returning images, such as this one of Pluto Broken Heart, to improve maps of other regions.
In September, NASA's New Horizons team released a stunning but incomplete image of Pluto's crescent. Thanks to new processing work...
This image was made just 15 minutes after NASA New Horizons spacecraft closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, as the spacecraft looked back at Pluto toward the sun.
This new, detailed global mosaic color map of Pluto is based on a series of three color filter images obtained...
This detailed global mosaic color map of Pluto is based on a series of three color filter images obtained NASA's New Horizons during the spacecraft close flyby of Pluto in July 2015.
NASA New Horizons scientists believe that the informally named feature Wright Mons, located south of Sputnik Planum on Pluto, and...
NASA New Horizons scientists believe that the informally named feature Wright Mons, located south of Sputnik Planum on Pluto, and another, Piccard Mons, could have been formed by the cryovolcanic eruption of ices from beneath Pluto surface.
This synthetic perspective view of Pluto, based on the latest high-resolution images to be downlinked from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft,...
This synthetic perspective view of Pluto, based on the latest high-resolution images to be downlinked from NASA New Horizons spacecraft, shows what you would see if you were above Pluto equatorial area, looking over Cthulhu Regio.
This image of Pluto was taken by New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) at 4:18 UT on July 9,...
This image of Pluto was taken by NASA New Horizons spacecraft at 4:18 UT on July 9, 2015, from a range of 3.9 million miles 6.3 million kilometers reveals new details on the surface of Pluto.
Two different versions of an image of Pluto's haze layers, taken by New Horizons as it looked back at Pluto's...
Two different versions of an image of Pluto haze layers, taken by NASA New Horizons as it looked back at Pluto dark side nearly 16 hours after close approach, from a distance of 480,000 miles 770,000 kilometers.
Hubble discovered Pluto’s four small moons, Nix, Hydra, Styx, and Kerberos. This is a composite of two images of the...
Pluto and its large moon, Charon, are at image center. White ovals indicate the orbits of each of the small moons Hubble discovered. Bright, blue-white blobs, and points of light are the individual moons.
This set of computer modeling illustrations of Pluto’s moon Nix shows how the orientation of the moon changes unpredictably as...
Pluto’s moon Nix