New Horizons reveals hazy skies on Pluto, beautiful ‘true color’ images


NASA unveiled new images today from its New Horizons mission to Pluto, showing more detail on the dwarf planet’s surface — as well as additional evidence of flowing ice. Let’s start backwards with what you could call a “farewell” image, which is an eclipse of the sun by Pluto as the New Horizons craft sailed off into the outer edges of the solar system. The image reveals surprisingly thick, hazy skies that are at least several times higher than what planetary scientists had expected:
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