Features on the Close Approach Hemisphere
Caption:
These images, taken by New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), show numerous large-scale features on Pluto's surface. The distance to Pluto ranges from 47 million kilometers (about 29 million miles) on June 5 to 31 million kilometers (19 million miles) on June 18. When various large, dark and bright regions appear near limbs, they give Pluto a distinct, but false, non-spherical appearance. Pluto is known to be almost perfectly spherical from previous data. These images are displayed at four times the native LORRI image size, and have been processed using a method called deconvolution, which sharpens the original images to enhance features on Pluto.
Cataloging Keywords:
Name |
Value |
Additional Values |
Target |
Pluto |
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System |
Pluto |
Kuiper Belt |
Target Type |
Dwarf Planet |
KBO |
Mission |
New Horizons |
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Instrument Host |
New Horizons |
|
Host Type |
Flyby Spacecraft |
|
Instrument |
Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) |
|
Detector |
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|
Extra Keywords |
Color, Visual |
Acquisition Date |
|
Release Date |
2015-06-22 |
Date in Caption |
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Image Credit |
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute |
Source |
photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19691 |
Identifier |
PIA19691 |