Pluto and Charon, 2015 July 9, 04:20UTC
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 5 days travel, and 6.3 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 9, 04:20UTC
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 5 days travel, and 6.3 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.