2023年6月3日 Charon: Moon of Pluto Image Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ./APL, Southwest Research Institute, U.S. Naval Observatory Explanation: A darkened and mysterious north polar region known to some as Mordor Macula caps this premier high-resolution view. The portrait of Charon, Pluto’s lar […]
A blue halo glows around Pluto’s receding crescent in this parting image taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015. At the time of this shot, New Horizons was 120,000 miles (200,000 kilometers) away from Pluto. Shown in approximate true color, the picture was constructed from a
2022年3月26日 Pluto at Night Image Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ./APL, Southwest Research Institute Explanation: The night side of Pluto spans this shadowy scene. In the stunning spacebased perspective the Sun is 4.9 billion kilometers (almost 4.5 light-hours) behind the dim and distant world. It wa
2021年8月1日 Pluto in Enhanced Color Image Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ./APL, Southwest Research Inst. Explanation: Pluto is more colorful than we can see. Color data and high-resolution images of our Solar System’s most famous dwarf planet, taken by the robotic New Horizons spacecraft during
2021年01月15日 A Plutonian Landscape Image Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ./APL, Southwest Research Institute Explanation: This shadowy landscape of majestic mountains and icy plains stretches toward the horizon on a small, distant world. It was captured from a range of about 18,000 kilometers when Ne
这张照片是2015年新视野号(New Horizon)飞越这颗矮行星时拍摄到的数据，照片中还有比加菲塔·蒙特斯(Pigafetta Montes)山脉的特写镜头。右边的颜色表示甲烷冰的浓度，高海拔地区的高浓度甲烷冰为红色，低海拔地区的低浓度甲烷冰为蓝色。 来源：NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI and Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter 2015年，新视野号宇宙飞船飞越冥王星时，发现冥王星上的山脉被甲烷冰覆盖，形成了明亮的沉积物，与地球上发现的白雪覆盖的山脉惊人地相似。 由国际科学家组成的团队进行的新研究，包括位于加利福尼亚州硅谷的美国宇航局艾姆斯研究中心(A
