pluto close up

    Caption: "Four images from the New Horizons spacecraft's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) were combined with color data from the Ralph telescope to create this 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 450,000 km (∼ 400 Pluto radii) away away from Pluto, show features as small as 2.2 km, twice the resolution of the single-image view taken on 2015 Jul13." (Slightly edited.)

    "Uploader notes: The north polar region is at top, with bright Tombaugh Regio (AKA The Heart) to the lower right of center and part of the dark Cthulhu Regio at the lower left. Part of the dark Krun Macula is also visible at the extreme lower right." (Slightly edited.)

    Features:

    1. Yours truly thinks the image is approximately true color, but no one is spitting out the about this factoid.

    2. Tombaugh Regio is named for Clyde Tombaugh (1906--1997) who discovered Pluto in 1930.

    3. Cthulhu Regio is named for Cthulhu, a cosmic entity imagined by H. P. Lovecraft (1890--1937). See Calls For Cthulhu Episode 1 to see Cthulhu's own talk show.

    Credit/Permission: NASA, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), 2015 (uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by User:WolfmanSF, 2015) / Public domain.
    Image link: Wikimedia Commons: File:Nh-pluto-in-true-color 2x.jpg.
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