Charon’s north pole, imaged by New Horizons.
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
Trapped gas could be tainting the north pole of Pluto’s moon Charon dark red.
New Horizons continues to help unravel the icy dwarf planet’s secrets.
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
After last summer’s Pluto flyby, the New Horizons spacecraft started sending data back to Earth – at 2 kilobits per second. Here’s some of what scientists have learned so far from that rich, slow cache.
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, as seen from Rosetta.
ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM
Prepare to be amazed …
Charon has a huge fracture system, unlike anything seen on Pluto.
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
Pluto’s moon Charon seems to have had a violent past, with icy volcanoes leaving huge fractures.
The best shot yet.
NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
From a mysterious haze to strange nitrogen snowfall, the latest pictures of Pluto pose many new questions.