Posted on Sep 10, 2019
APOD: 2019 September 10 - Pluto in True Color
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Good Afternoon Maj William W. 'Bill' Price and thank you for this image of Pluto in True Color as the APOD for today... I could not find a clip which displays the true colors of Pluto, but I did come up with a National Geographic Video of pluto, which will give a broad spectrum of detail about Pluto... It is fairly short 4-Min. clip, which I believe your followers will enjoy!!!
https://youtu.be/-iZio70bd-M
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https://youtu.be/-iZio70bd-M
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Thank you, my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Tuesday, September 10, 2019 entitled "Pluto in True Color."
Image: Pluto in True Color - Image Credit - NASA, JHU APL, SwRI, Alex Parker
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"Explanation: What color is Pluto, really? It took some effort to figure out. Even given all of the images sent back to Earth when the robotic New Horizons spacecraft sped past Pluto in 2015, processing these multi-spectral frames to approximate what the human eye would see was challenging. The result featured here, released three years after the raw data was acquired by New Horizons, is the highest resolution true color image of Pluto ever taken. Visible in the image is the light-colored, heart-shaped, Tombaugh Regio, with the unexpectedly smooth Sputnik Planitia, made of frozen nitrogen, filling its western lobe. New Horizons found the dwarf-planet to have a surprisingly complex surface composed of many regions having perceptibly different hues. In total, though, Pluto is mostly brown, with much of its muted color originating from small amounts of surface methane energized by ultraviolet light from the Sun."
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Image: Pluto in True Color - Image Credit - NASA, JHU APL, SwRI, Alex Parker
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"Explanation: What color is Pluto, really? It took some effort to figure out. Even given all of the images sent back to Earth when the robotic New Horizons spacecraft sped past Pluto in 2015, processing these multi-spectral frames to approximate what the human eye would see was challenging. The result featured here, released three years after the raw data was acquired by New Horizons, is the highest resolution true color image of Pluto ever taken. Visible in the image is the light-colored, heart-shaped, Tombaugh Regio, with the unexpectedly smooth Sputnik Planitia, made of frozen nitrogen, filling its western lobe. New Horizons found the dwarf-planet to have a surprisingly complex surface composed of many regions having perceptibly different hues. In total, though, Pluto is mostly brown, with much of its muted color originating from small amounts of surface methane energized by ultraviolet light from the Sun."
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Even with the ability to "see color" Pluto is mostly brown unlike several of its neighbors who are much larger and more colorful. Good morning Maj William W. 'Bill' Price and thanks for the share.
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