Color Movie Made of Pluto-Charon System

Posted by samzenpus on Monday June 22, 2015 @05:34PM from the colour-out-of-space dept.

VernonNemitz writes: Today NASA released a color movie of Pluto and its largest moon Charon, as the New Horizons probe approaches its July 2015 rendezvous date. "It's exciting to see Pluto and Charon in motion and in color," said New Horizons principal examiner Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) at Boulder, Colorado. "Even at this low resolution, we can see that Pluto and Charon have different colours - Pluto is beige-orange, while Charon is grey. Exactly why they are so different is the subject of debate," Stern said.

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Re:Movie? by Rei · 2015-06-22 19:49 · Score: 4, Informative

What's ridiculous is that it's made of LORRI images from nearly a month ago. There's much high resolution available now. Here's what Pluto has looked like in the past few days.
Heck, even years ago we knew that Pluto-Charon looked like this

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