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This enhanced-color view of the dwarf planet Pluto was constructed from data collected by the New Horizons spacecraft during its 2015 flyby. It is spherical, with a terminator along a curve from roughly two o'clock to seven o'clock that covers the bottom right corner in shadow. A large reddish patch covers most of the lower left quadrant. The right-hand side is primarily white, with a large and smooth heart-shaped region dominating the lower right half of the planet.

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This enhanced-color view of the dwarf planet Pluto was constructed from data collected by the New Horizons spacecraft during its 2015 flyby. It is spherical, with a terminator along a curve from roughly two o'clock to seven o'clock that covers the bottom right corner in shadow. A large reddish patch covers most of the lower left quadrant. The right-hand side is primarily white, with a large and smooth heart-shaped region dominating the lower right half of the planet.
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 16-Jun-2023 15:29:16 UTC Robert McNees
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Compare that with this more recent image, originally posted on APOD in 2015, showing an enhanced-color view based on images captured by the New Horizons spacecraft.
Image Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ./APL, Southwest Research Inst.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210801.html

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