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Jul 12, 2015 · The dark spots lie on Pluto's far side, which always faces the dwarf planet's largest moon, Charon. New Horizons won't be able to see the far side when it zooms through the Pluto...
Jul 15, 2015 · Charon’s dark spot, which mission scientists have now dubbed “Mordor,” remains intriguing in the latest image of Pluto’s largest moon.
Jul 29, 2020 · Pluto’s dark side spills its secrets — including hints of a hidden ocean. Images of the dwarf planet’s far side are revealing possible signs of liquid water, mysterious shards of ice and new...
July 11, 2015. Pluto, as it turns out, is two-faced. Literally. New color images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reveal that the mysterious dwarf planet has "two very different faces," one of...
Jul 11, 2015 · Three billion miles from Earth and just two and a half million miles from Pluto, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has taken its best image of four dark spots that continue to captivate.
Oct 27, 2021 · Charon-lit-Pluto: The image shows the dark side of Pluto surrounded by a bright ring of sunlight scattered by haze in its atmosphere. But for a dark crescent zone to the left, the terrain is faintly illuminated by sunlight reflected by Pluto’s moon Charon.
Jul 6, 2015 · The images reveal a great deal of variation and complexity across Pluto's surface — including the four large dark patches near the equator first spotted by New Horizons late last month.
