Friday 2 October 2015

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

OUTER PLANETS
Pluto's Big Moon Charon Reveals a Colorful and Violent History
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 02, 2015 - 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. At half the diameter of Pluto, Charon is the largest satellite relative to its planet in the solar system. Many New Horizons scientists expected Charon to be a monotonous, crater-battered world ... more


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