New Horizons probe sent color images of Pluto and Charon

Just yesterday, NASA posted a net color images of the dwarf planet Ceres, made probe Dawn. Appropriate post was published on Geektimes , and comments to him by Makito asked how things are going with the interplanetary station New Horizons. With the probe so good - he gradually approaching my destination , incidentally making more and more new pictures. < br />
April 9, 2015 New Horizons sent color images of Pluto and Charon. Unfortunately, the pictures are not very clear, because the probe is far from Pluto. However, at the moment this is the most high-quality images of Pluto and Charon, which has scientists.

Earlier, the probe sent black-and-white pictures, from which NASA experts have made an animation:



The minimum distance to Pluto probe closer July 14 of this year (the wait is nothing at all), the distance will be slightly more than 12 thousand. Km. In the vicinity of the Pluto-Charon system New Horizons will be about 16 months (the main part of the mission). The main task of the probe at the same time - to gather as much information about Pluto and its moon, Charon. The toolkit allows the probe to gather information about the magnetosphere Pluto, the dwarf planet atmospheric composition and surface structure.

To implement the main part of the New Horizons mission will go to the Kuiper Belt. According to scientists, the Kuiper belt formed by asteroids, consisting mainly of frozen ammonia, methane and water.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/249046/