New Horizons: NASA's Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission
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Science Overview
Everything About Pluto, Charon and the Kuiper Belt
 The Basics
 • Pluto's Orbit
 • Discovery of Pluto
 • Discovery of Charon
 • What's in the Names?
 • Pluto & Charon: Family Album
 • What Is a Binary Planet?
 • Making Maps
 • Surface Composition
 • Pluto's Atmosphere
 • Colossal Cousin to a Comet?
 • The Inside Story
 • Is Triton Pluto's Twin?

 • The Kuiper Belt
 • Comparative Planetology
 • Is Pluto a Planet?
 • Phases & Seasons
Data Collection
Science Operations Center
Science FAQs
Glossary

 


   
Pluto & Charon: Family Album

One of New Horizons' top science goals is just to make maps of Pluto and Charon, revealing details that we simply can't see from Earth. In fact, even with the best telescopes and technologies on the ground and in space, Pluto and its Moons look like tiny dots of light in the sky with hardly any visible details.

Click on an image from "today's" collection to learn more about it.


Keck Telescope

Subaru Telescope

Hubble Images

Hubble Map

True Color Map

False Color Map

Charon

New Moons


 
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