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Pluto Encounter

New Horizons LORRI Image

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Description:OpNav%20Campaign%202:%20Image%20Pluto,%20Charon,%20Nix%20
Time:2015-02-20%3Cbr%3E00:13:14%20UTC
Exposure:9967%20msec
Target:PLUTO
Range:172.1M%20km
Binning:N/A
Image Name:lor_0286697117_0x633_sci_1
Additional Information:

This image contains one or more objects whose brightness exceeds the detector's saturation level. This sometimes produces a "tail" of bright and/or dark pixels to the right of the object. You may also notice a faint vertical white stripe passing through the saturated object; this is an artifact called "frame transfer smear" and is associated with the incomplete removal of signal produced when the image is transferred from the optically active region of the detector to the storage region of the detector. If the target is badly saturated, you may also notice a faint, X-shaped feature nearly centered on the object; these are optical diffraction spikes.

This image contains one or more streaks associated with cosmic rays passing through the detector. Nearly every LORRI image has at least one cosmic ray strike, but most are "single pixel" events (i.e., they only appear to be in single pixel and can easily be mistaken for stars). But sometimes a cosmic ray is energetic enough that it leaves a "trail" as it passes through the LORRI detector.