Charon in Enhanced Color

  • Released Friday, October 2nd, 2015
  • Updated Tuesday, November 14th, 2023 at 12:29AM
  • ID: 30694
A high-resolution enhanced color view of Charon

A high-resolution enhanced color view of Charon

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NASA's New Horizons captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Charon just before closest approach on July 14, 2015. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the spacecraft's Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC); the colors are processed to best highlight the variation of surface properties across Charon. Charon's color palette is not as diverse as Pluto's; most striking is the reddish north (top) polar region, informally named Mordor Macula. Charon is 754 miles (1,214 kilometers) across; this image resolves details as small as 1.8 miles (2.9 kilometers).

For More Information

See photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19968

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NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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