Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI This processed image is the highest-resolution color look yet at the haze layers in Pluto’s atmosphere. Shown in approximate true color, the picture is constructed from a mosaic of four panchromatic images from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) splashed with Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) four-color filter data, all acquired by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015. The resolution is 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) per pixel; the sun illuminates the scene from the right.
Scientists believe the haze is a photochemical smog resulting from the action of sunlight on methane and 4 molecules in Pluto’s atmosphere, producing a complex mixture of hydrocarbons such as acetylene and ethylene...
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