New Horizons Delivering Pluto Imagery With Better Resolution Than Hubble

Credit: NASA/APL/SWRI
A camera aboard NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has started generating tantalizing views of Pluto rotating on its sharply tilted axis, presenting patches of bright and dark material as it spins around a pole that appears to be covered with a cap of ice. Using “deconvolution” techniques developed to...

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