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Animation of moons of Pluto around the barycenter of Pluto - Ecliptic plane. Pluto's four small circumbinary moons orbit Pluto at two to four times the distance of Charon, ranging from Styx at 42,700 kilometres to Hydra at 64,800 kilometres from the barycenter of the system.
30 lip 2015 · The science team of NASA's New Horizons mission has produced this global map of Pluto's largest moon, Charon. The map includes all available resolved images of the surface acquired between July 7-14, 2015 on the anti-Pluto facing hemisphere.
A map of Charon with IAU names Comparison between Pluto's Sputnik Planitia and Charon's informally named Vulcan Planitia. Unlike Pluto's surface, which is composed of nitrogen and methane ices, Charon's surface appears to be dominated by the less volatile water ice.
30 lip 2015 · The science team of NASA's New Horizons mission has produced this global map of Pluto's largest moon, Charon. The map includes all available resolved images of the surface acquired between...
29 kwi 2016 · NASA’s New Horizons mission science team has produced this updated panchromatic (black-and-white) global map of Pluto. The map includes all resolved images of Pluto’s surface acquired between July 7-14, 2015, at pixel resolutions ranging from 18 miles (30 kilometers) on the Charon-facing hemisphere (left and right edges of the map) to 770 ...
Charon is the largest of Pluto's five moons. At half the size of Pluto, Charon is the largest known satellite relative to its parent body. The same surfaces of Charon and Pluto always face each other, a phenomenon called mutual tidal locking. Charon orbits Pluto every 6.4 Earth days.
Pluto Moons - NASA. News & Articles. See All News. Article. 4 Min Read. 45 Years Ago: Astronomers Discover Pluto’s Moon Charon. Article. 5 Min Read. Using “Charon-light,” Researchers Image Pluto’s Dark Side in Faint Moonlight. Article. 13 Min Read. Five Years after New Horizons’ Historic Flyby, Here Are 10 Cool Things We Learned About… Article.
