Psychedelic Pluto

[Judi Lynn]

Psychedelic Pluto
Posted on 13 November 2015 by Astronomy Now


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New Horizons scientists made this false colour image of Pluto using a technique called principal component analysis to highlight the many subtle colour differences between Pluto’s distinct regions. The image data were collected by the spacecraft’s Ralph/MVIC colour camera on 14 July at 11:11 UTC, from a range of 22,000 miles (35,000 kilometres). This image was presented by Will Grundy of the New Horizons’ surface composition team on 9 November at the Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in National Harbor, Maryland.

http://astronomynow.com/2015/11/13/psychedelic-pluto/

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

1. Cool, I wonder what caused the flat light colored space and the long thin lines. nt