![]() Caption:An artist's concept of the Pluto/Charon system, with the Sun as it would appear from their remote position in the solar system. Copyright: Credit:NASA |
![]() Caption:One of the best ground-based images of Pluto and Charon compared with an image from the Hubble Space Telescope prior to the correction of its optics. Copyright: Credit:NASA and ESA |
![]() Caption:Pluto and its moon Charon are clearly resolved in this Hubble Space Telescope image taken on 21 February 1994. They are 4.4 billion km (2.6 billion miles) away. Copyright: Credit:R. Albrecht and NASA |
![]() Caption:Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaged nearly the entire surface of Pluto, as it rotated through its 6.4-day period. The two smaller inset pictures at the top are actual images from HST. Each square pixel is more than 100 miles across. The larger images are from a global map constructed through computer image processing performed on the Hubble data. Copyright: Credit:A. Stern, M. Buie, NASA, ESA |
![]() Caption:This is the first image-based surface map of the Solar System's most remote planet. It was assembled by computer image processing four separate images. The map, which covers 85% of the planet's surface, confirms that Pluto has a dark equatorial belt and bright polar caps. Copyright: Credit:A. Stern, M. Buie, NASA, ESA |