Pluto - Hubble Space Telescope
Images of Pluto's surface from 3 billion miles
Images of Pluto taken by the NASA Hubble Space Telescope
with the ESA Faint Object Camera. These images, taken
in late June and early July, 1994 are the first views
which allow resolution of features on Pluto's surface.
Opposite hemispheres are seen on the left and right.
The large lower images are processed versions made
from a number of Hubble observations. The smaller
images at the top are actual raw images, each pixel
is over 150 km across. The variations in brightness
may be due to topographic features and/or surface
composition, frost layers, and interactions with
Pluto's nitrogen-methane atmosphere. Pluto is 2320 km
in diameter and north is up.
(HST, STScI-PR96-09a)
Pluto
