This image of Pluto from New Horizons’ Long
Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) was received on July 8, and has been
combined with lower-resolution color information from the Ralph
instrument.
Credit: NASA-JHUAPL-SWRI
After a more than nine-year,
three-billion-mile journey to Pluto, it's show time for NASA's New
Horizons spacecraft, as the flyby sequence of science observations is
officially underway.
In the early morning hours of July 8, mission scientists received
this new view of Pluto -- the most detailed yet returned by the Long
Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard New Horizons. The image was
taken on July 7, when the spacecraft was just under 5 million miles (8
million kilometers) from Pluto, and is the first to be received since
the July 4 anomaly that sent the spacecraft into safe mode.
This view is centered roughly on the area that will be seen close-up
during New Horizons' July 14 closest approach. This side of Pluto is
dominated by three broad regions of varying brightness. Most prominent
are an elongated dark feature at the equator, informally known as "the
whale," and a large heart-shaped bright area measuring some 1,200 miles
(2,000 kilometers) across on the right. Above those features is a polar
region that is intermediate in brightness.
"The next time we see this part of Pluto at closest approach, a
portion of this region will be imaged at about 500 times better
resolution than we see today," said Jeff Moore, Geology, Geophysics and
Imaging Team Leader of NASA's Ames Research Center. "It will be
incredible!"
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