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Full Rotation of Pluto
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Titre: Full Rotation of Pluto
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On approach to Pluto in July 2015, the cameras on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured the planet rotating over the course of a full Pluto day. The best available images of each side of Pluto taken during approach have been combined to create this view of a full rotation. Pluto's day is 6.4 Earth days long. The images were taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) and the Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera as the distance between New Horizons and Pluto decreased from 5 million miles (8 million kilometers) on July 7 to only 400,000 miles (about 645,000 kilometers) on July 13. These images and others like them reveal many details about Pluto, including the differences between the encounter hemisphere and the so-called ³far side² hemisphere seen only at lower resolution. Dimples in the bottom (south) edge of Pluto's disk are artifacts of the way the images were combined to create these composites.
On approach to Pluto in July 2015, the cameras on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured the planet rotating over the course of a full Pluto day. The best available images of each side of Pluto taken during approach have been combined to create this view of a full rotation. Pluto's day is 6.4 Earth days long. The images were taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) and the Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera as the distance between New Horizons and Pluto decreased from 5 million miles (8 million kilometers) on July 7 to only 400,000 miles (about 645,000 kilometers) on July 13. These images and others like them reveal many details about Pluto, including the differences between the encounter hemisphere and the so-called ³far side² hemisphere seen only at lower resolution. Dimples in the bottom (south) edge of Pluto's disk are artifacts of the way the images were combined to create these composites.
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Taille de l'image: 2363 × 2100 px | 14.2 MB
Taille d'impression: 20.0 × 17.8 cm | 930.3 × 826.8 in (300 dpi)
Mots clés: ASTRONOMIE • ASTRONOMIE: PLANETES • CIEL • HEMISPHERE (ASTRONOMIE) • JOUR • NASA • PLANETE • PLANÈTES • ROTATION • SCIENCE: ASTRONOMIE • SYSTEME SOLAIRE
