Pluto
One hemisphere razor-sharp from New Horizons' 2015 flyby, the other forever fuzzy — a map that wears its own story.
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About this globe
One hemisphere razor-sharp, the other a blur — this map wears the story of its own making. New Horizons flew past Pluto exactly once, in July 2015, photographing the encounter side in stunning detail while the far side rotated away.
The bright heart-shaped Sputnik Planitia is a glacier of frozen nitrogen the size of Texas.
How the data was captured
Photographed by New Horizons during humanity's only visit — a single high-speed flyby in July 2015. The sharp hemisphere faced the spacecraft at closest approach; the fuzzy side was imaged days earlier from millions of kilometers away.
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