WASHINGTON: The US space agency NASA has released a stunning, yet entire view of Pluto’s crescent taken by the New Horizons spacecraft during its flyby in July this year.
Earlier in September, the New Horizons team presented us a stunning but incomplete image of Pluto’s crescent. Now, scientists behind the New Horizons mission have processed the entire image to reveal a breathtaking full view of Pluto.
New Horizons snapped this image just 15 minutes after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015. The image was taken with New Horizons’ Multi-spectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) from a distance of 11,000 miles away when New Horizons looked back at Pluto toward the Sun.
