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Pluto Features Given First Official Names

New Horizons’ Next Target Just Got a Lot More Interesting

NASA Video Soars over Pluto’s Majestic Mountains and Icy Plains

New Horizons Unveils New Maps of Pluto, Charon on Flyby Anniversary

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The science team of NASA New Horizons mission has produced this global map of Pluto largest moon, Charon. The map includes all available resolved images of the surface acquired between July 7-14, 2015 on the anti-Pluto facing hemisphere.

The artist rendition shows the newly discovered planet-like object, dubbed Sedna, in relation to other bodies in the solar system, including Earth and its Moon; Pluto; and Quaoar, a planetoid beyond Pluto.

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