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Pluto's Big Moon Charon Reveals a Colorful and Violent History


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NASA's New Horizons captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Charon just before closest approach on July 14, 2015. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the spacecrafts Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC); the

Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has returned the best color and the highest resolution images yet of Pluto's largest moon, Charon—and these pictures show a surprisingly complex and violent history.

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