![]() ![]() The striking features on Pluto are clearly visible, including the bright expanse of Pluto’s icy, nitrogen-and-methane rich “heart,” Sputnik Planitia.Ī July 2015 entry in the same gallery bearing the headling “ Pluto Dazzles in False Color” reported that “New Horizons scientists use enhanced color images to detect differences in the composition and texture of Pluto’s surface.” Laurie Cantillo, NASA Planetary Science Public Affairs, was quoted on the page about the enhanced images: This single color MVIC scan includes no data from other New Horizons imagers or instruments added. This image was taken as New Horizons zipped toward Pluto and its moons on July 14, 2015, from a range of 22,025 miles (35,445) kilometers. The processing creates images that would approximate the colors that the human eye would perceive, bringing them closer to “true color” than the images released near the encounter. These natural-color images result from refined calibration of data gathered by New Horizons’ color Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC). ![]() This is the most accurate natural color images of Pluto taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in 2015. A July 2018 article featured a slightly less colorful version of what appeared to be the same image, “ True Colors of Pluto.” It explained of the original image: Small text on the photograph indicated that it had originated with NASA, which maintains an archive of Pluto images. This particular enhanced color composite was released in September 2015. Telescopes cannot get anything better than a pixelated blur. Just Seen this new picture of Pluto! from AstronomyĪs a top comment on the r/Astronomy thread noted the images were nowhere near new as of 2019, as they were first released in September 2015:Īll the detailled images we have are from the New Horizons flyby, on July 14, 2015. On Reddit, the same image was shared to r/Astronomy and r/SpacePorn by a karma-farming user at around the same time with a similar caption: On Twitter, a space-and-science focused account shared the photograph with a similar caption on the same day. ![]() On September 14 2019, the Facebook page “Science Porn” shared the following image, claiming it was the “newest” and “clearest” photograph of Pluto: ![]()
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