Tag: LORRI

The Mountainous Shoreline of Sputnik Planum: Great blocks of Pluto’s water-ice crust appear jammed together in the informally named al-Idrisi mountains. Some mountain sides appear coated in dark material, while other sides are bright.Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

Dwarf Planet Pluto’s Surface Revealed in New Horizon’s New Images

MessageToEagle.com | December 14, 2015

MessageToEagle.com – NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the first few of a series of the sharpest views of Pluto it obtained during its July flyby – and

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A Day On Pluto And A Day On Charon

MessageToEagle.com | November 22, 2015

MessageToEagle.com – 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