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May 1, 2015 · @Johnfinitum. Let’s just get down to it: Even though it bares the same name as the Greek god Charon, which is pronounced like Karen, but with more emphasis on the -on (Kare-RON), Pluto’s moon ...
Jun 22, 2006 · A pair of small moons orbiting Pluto, which were discovered by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, have been named Nix and Hydra. Discovered in 2005, the two moons are roughly 5,000 times fainter than Pluto and are about two to three times farther from Pluto than its large moon, Charon, which was discovered in 1978. Image […]
Sep 14, 2016 · Charon’s vast equatorial chasms. The most obvious ones are unofficially named Macross Chasma (on the left) and Serenity Chasma (on the right).
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Jul 16, 2015 · The latest image release zooms in on a portion of Charon’s surface that lies kind of near the moon’s equator. Snapped by New Horizons as it approached the Pluto system on July 14, the image ...
Jun 25, 2018 · In July 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sent home the first close-up pictures of Pluto and its moons. Using actual New Horizons data and digital elevation models of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, mission scientists created flyover movies that offer spectacular new perspectives of the many unusual features that were discovered and which have reshaped our views of the Pluto system ...
Sep 7, 2017 · Astronomers initially expected the surface of Charon to be monotonous and riddled with crater marks. After viewing footage from the New Horizon’s probe, they found that it is covered with mountains, canyons, landslides, color variations, and more.
