{"id":10906,"date":"2015-07-06T16:24:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T20:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10906"},"modified":"2015-07-06T16:24:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T20:24:12","slug":"new-images-of-pluto-from-the-new-horizons-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10906","title":{"rendered":"New images of Pluto from the New Horizons spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"

New images of Pluto taken by the\u00a0New Horizons<\/a>\u00a0probe have just been released:<\/p>\n

Latest Images of Pluto from New Horizons<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

These are the most recent high-resolution views of Pluto sent by NASA\u2019s New Horizons spacecraft, including one showing the four mysterious dark spots on Pluto that have captured the imagination of the world. The Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) obtained these three images between July 1 and 3 of 2015, prior to the July 4 anomaly that sent New Horizons into safe mode.<\/p>\n

\"nh-pluto-bw-series-7-6-2015[1]\"<\/a>Click for larger image<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The left image shows, on the right side of the disk, a large bright area on the hemisphere of Pluto that will be seen in close-up by New Horizons on July 14. The three images together show the full extent of a continuous swath of dark terrain that wraps around much of Pluto\u2019s equatorial region. The\u00a0western end of the swath (right image) breaks up into a series of striking dark regularly-spaced spots, each hundreds of miles in size, which were first detected in New Horizons images taken in late June. Intriguing details are beginning to emerge in the bright material north of the dark\u00a0region, in particular a series of bright and dark patches that are conspicuous just below the center of the disk in the right image. In all three black-and-white views, the apparent jagged bottom edge of Pluto is the result of image processing.\u00a0The inset shows Pluto\u2019s orientation, illustrating its north pole, equator, and central meridian running from pole to pole.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0color version of the July 3 LORRI image was created by adding color data from the Ralph instrument gathered earlier in the mission.<\/p>\n

\"nh-pluto-color-7-6-2015_0[1]\"<\/a>Click for larger image<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Credit: NASA\/JHUAPL\/SWRI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New images of Pluto taken by the\u00a0New Horizons\u00a0probe have just been released: Latest Images of Pluto from New Horizons These are the most recent high-resolution views of Pluto sent by NASA\u2019s New Horizons spacecraft, including one showing the four mysterious dark spots on Pluto that have captured the imagination of the world. The Long Range … Continue reading New images of Pluto from the New Horizons spacecraft<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,13,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pluto","category-space-science","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2PU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10864,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10864","url_meta":{"origin":10906,"position":0},"title":"Pluto Fly-by: New images, methane detection, & course correction","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Yet more news and pictures from\u00a0New Horizons:\u00a0 New Horizons Update: Methane Detected; New Images of Pluto and Charon\u00a0 Yes, there is methane on Pluto, and, no, it doesn\u2019t come from cows. 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