Pluto Gets Into The Christmas Spirit
- 9 years ago
NASA recently released a false color image showing Pluto in Christmas red and green.
Red and green, seemingly imbued with the holiday spirit, Pluto appears in a false color image recently released by NASA.
According to the space agency, "This image was produced by the New Horizons composition team, using a pair of Ralph/LEISA instrument scans obtained at approximately 9:40 AM on July 14, from a mean range of 67,000 miles."
Pluto also bears a small splotch of blue in the center which permeates through to the upper right-hand side of the dwarf planet.
NASA explains the holiday-themed composition, noting, "Three infrared wavelength ranges...were placed into the three color channels (red, green and blue, re
Red and green, seemingly imbued with the holiday spirit, Pluto appears in a false color image recently released by NASA.
According to the space agency, "This image was produced by the New Horizons composition team, using a pair of Ralph/LEISA instrument scans obtained at approximately 9:40 AM on July 14, from a mean range of 67,000 miles."
Pluto also bears a small splotch of blue in the center which permeates through to the upper right-hand side of the dwarf planet.
NASA explains the holiday-themed composition, noting, "Three infrared wavelength ranges...were placed into the three color channels (red, green and blue, re