Early Color Imagery Shows Pluto, Charon Differences

Credit: Pluto and Charon: NASA/APL/SwRI
Some of the first color New Horizons images of Pluto and its largest moon Charon have answered one question – what color are they? But they have raised another – why are the two bodies in the same “binary dwarf” different colors? Images collected by the Multicolor Visible Imaging Camera that is part...

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