NEW YORK: The US National Space Agency has published the first ever images of the remote dwarf planet Pluto and its largest satellite. The picture quality leaves much to be desired, but NASA promises the best is yet to come.
NASA has compiled a number of photographs from its New Horizons mission on the approach to the icy dwarf planet. The series pictures were taken over the course of five days in three colors: blue, red and near-infrared. They were then put together to make two looped movies, showing Pluto and its largest satellite, Charon.
Pluto is a dwarf planet, only about one-sixth of Earth’s size, which is why it was excluded from the list of Solar System’s “proper” planets in 2006, when the definition of “planet” was reviewed. It does orbit the sun, though, and is one of the largest bodies in the Kuiper belt – a ring of space debris left over from the Solar System’s formation, beyond the orbit of Neptune.
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