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Thursdays @Pluto: Charon in living color. October 1, 2015 1:47 pm Robert

Yes, it’s Thursday, time to see what marvels the New Horizons team has released upon us today. Their focus this week is Pluto’s moon Charon, and once again they don’t disappoint. I recommend browsing all the recent Charon images at the Science Gallery because there are several other images, such as high-resolution color details, worth viewing too. But as always I’m a sucker for that global color mosaic:

Beautiful.

  • do the bump by podrock 2015-10-03 19:43:52
    • I don't think so. by ER 2015-10-03 20:30:54
      • A fender bender. by podrock 2015-10-03 21:02:41
        • A second chance by Robert 2015-10-04 09:16:02
          • Blithe Certainty? Thufferin' Thuccotash! by ER 2015-10-04 10:12:29
            • another reason by ER 2015-10-04 10:16:54
          • Tidal disruption by ER 2015-10-04 06:34:23
            • PS by ER 2015-10-04 07:06:25

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