“Pluto’s first color portrait”

“Pluto’s first color portrait”

 

An animated Pluto
A computer-generated image of the former planet Pluto, created by NASA, the European Space Agency, and M. Buie, of the Southwest Research Agency. Not to be confused with the actual photograph that’s just been released.

 

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/plutos-first-color-portrait-new-horizons-probe/

 

Okay.  It’s not much yet.  But it’s absolutely the first of its kind.

 

And better shots may well come over the next six weeks or so.

 

Unthinkable, back when I was a kid.

 

 


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