File:Pluto-Charon-v2-10-1-15.jpg

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English: Charon and Pluto: Strikingly Different Worlds

A composite of enhanced color images of Pluto (lower right) and Charon (upper left), taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft as it passed through the Pluto system on July 14, 2015. This image highlights the striking differences between Pluto and Charon. The color and brightness of both Pluto and Charon have been processed identically to allow direct comparison of their surface properties, and to highlight the similarity between Charon's polar red terrain and Pluto's equatorial red terrain. Pluto and Charon are shown with approximately correct relative sizes, but their true separation is not to scale. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the spacecraft's Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC).

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, designed, built, and operates the New Horizons spacecraft, and manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. The Southwest Research Institute, based in San Antonio, leads the science team, payload operations and encounter science planning. New Horizons is part of the New Frontiers Program managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Deutsch: Charon und Pluto, zwei unterschiedliche Welten, Photomontage aus Aufnahmen von New Horizons 14.07.2015
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Source https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/images/index.html?id=371389 (see also http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19966)
Author NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute

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Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
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Composite of enhanced color images of Pluto (right) and Charon (left), taken by the New Horizons spacecraft in 2015; size to scale, distance not

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21 September 2015

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