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Pluto-01 Stern 03 Pluto Color TXT
NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute
2015-07-14
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/crop_p_color2_enhanced_release.png (Converted to JPEG) (see also PIA19952}
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto on July 14, 2015. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC). Pluto’s surface sports a remarkable range of subtle colors, enhanced in this view to a rainbow of pale blues, yellows, oranges, and deep reds. Many landforms have their own distinct colors, telling a complex geological and climatological story that scientists have only just begun to decode. The image resolves details and colors on scales as small as 0.8 miles (1.3 kilometers). The viewer is encouraged to zoom in on the image on a larger screen to fully appreciate the complexity of Pluto’s surface features. caption link The story of the processing of the image is given here.
Note: feature names given in annotations are provisional.
