Pluto and Charon, 2015 July 11, 04:05UTC
This image is a processed stack of three images taken by the New Horizons space probe which will fly by Pluto on July 14 2015. When Hew Horizons took this photograph, it was still 3 days travel, and 4 million km from Pluto. Pluto is the larger object at upper right, its moon Charon is the darker object at lower left. Original images courtesy of NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute.
Pluto and Charon, 2015 July 11, 04:05UTC
This image is a processed stack of three images taken by the New Horizons space probe which will fly by Pluto on July 14 2015. When Hew Horizons took this photograph, it was still 3 days travel, and 4 million km from Pluto. Pluto is the larger object at upper right, its moon Charon is the darker object at lower left. Original images courtesy of NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute.