A Full Day on Pluto-Charon
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This “movie” by New Horizons consists of a compilation of images taken by the craft’s Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) over a period of about a week, from January 25th until the 31st. Given that Pluto and Charon both rotate once every 6.4 Earth days, the assembled images allow us to see a whole day on these distant bodies.
source: http://www.iflscience.com/space...
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