1st Color Image of Pluto Snapped by Approaching NASA Probe (Photo)
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 12:00
in Astronomy & Space
NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto has returned its first color image of the dwarf planet and its largest moon, Charon. The new photo was taken on April 9, from a distance of about 71 million miles (115 million kilometers).