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As Pluto's upper atmosphere escapes into space, a portion is attracted toward its largest moon, Charon, which captures a thin atmosphere of its own. Charon's gravity draws particles onto its leading face while focusing them into a high density (orange) region in its wake. Charon (in black) orbits CCW in this view with Pluto at the left. -Computational Fluid Physics Lab (Golstein/Varghese Research Group)
A trio of sword-swallowers in sepia.
(Don't ya love alliteration?)
Alex, Charon and Travis at the MCT booth: Cinema Wasteland 2006
Ministro da Saúde, Marcelo Queiroga, visita a Unidade de Prevenção da Cegueira pelo Glaucoma do Hospital Cynthia Charone, Belém-PA, 10/09/2021 Fotos:Myke Sena/MS
Charon --- NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI, brightened, sharpened, contrast heightened. See www.intergalacticsafari.com/pluto-and-friends.html
Check this out from NASA -- 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 largest moon, was captured by New Horizons near the spacecraft's closest approach on July 14, 2015. The combined blue, red, and infrared data was processed to enhance colors and follow variations in Charon's surface properties with a resolution of about 2.9 kilometers (1.8 miles). A stunning image of Charon's Pluto-facing hemisphere, it also features a clear view of an apparently moon-girdling belt of fractures and canyons that seems to separate smooth southern plains from varied northern terrain. Charon is 1,214 kilometers (754 miles) across. That's about 1/10th the size of planet Earth but a whopping 1/2 the diameter of Pluto itself, and makes it the largest satellite relative to its parent body in the Solar System. Still, the moon appears as a small bump at about the 1 o'clock position on Pluto's disk in the grainy, negative,telescopic picture inset at upper left. That view was used by James Christy and Robert Harrington at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Flagstaff to discover Charon 40 years ago in June of 1978. (ift.tt/2ugsxGX)
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Pluto & Charon on Jun 22, 2015 at 00:47:45 UTC (Range: 26.8M km).
I can't help but wonder if that's a crater on the right side of Pluto in this pic or if it's some sort of dust speck on the lens or an illusion created by the light and dark areas on Pluto.