December 28, 2015

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Image: Christmas Pluto

Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
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Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

Pluto gets into the holiday spirit, decked out in red and green. 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 (108,000 kilometers).

The resolution is about 7 kilometers per LEISA pixel. Three ranges (2.28-2.23, 1.25-1.30 and 1.64-1.73 microns) were placed into the three color channels (red, green and blue, respectively) to create this false color Christmas portrait.

Provided by NASA

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