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PLUTO
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Hubble image is the clearest view yet of the distant planet Pluto
and its moon, Charon, It was taken by the European Space Agency's
Faint Object Camera on February 21, 1994 when the planet was 2.6
billion miles from Earth; or nearly 30 times the separation between
Earth and the sun. Hubble's ability to distinguish Pluto's disk
at this distance is equivalent to seeing a baseball at a distance
of 40 miles . Click
here for more.
The
surface of the distant planet Pluto was resolved for the first time
in such detail in these NASA Hubble Space Telescope pictures, taken
with the European Space Agency's (ESA) Faint Object Camera (FOC).
Hubble imaged nearly the entire surface of Pluto, as it rotated
through its 6.4-day period, in late June and early July 1994. These
images, which were made in blue light, show that Pluto is an unusually
complex object, with more large-scale contrast than any planet,
except Earth. The two view are the two hemispheres. Click
here for more.
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