Hubble image archive
Pluto: June 28, 2011 (WFC/UVIS)
CreditsNASA, ESA, and M. Showalter (SETI Institute)
- Date
- Jan 1, 2011
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2011-23-2884-image
Credits
NASA, ESA, and M. Showalter (SETI Institute)Image Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | Pluto |
| Object Description | Dwarf Planet |
| Distance | Although its orbit is highly eccentric, Pluto's average distance from the Sun is 39.44 astronomical units (roughly 3.6 billion miles or 5.9 billion kilometers). |
| Dimensions | Pluto has a diameter of roughly 1,416 miles (2,280 kilometers) at the equator. |
| About The Data | |
| Data Description | This image was created from HST data from proposal : M. Showalter (SETI Institute) and D. Hamilton (University of Maryland). |
| Instrument | HST>WFC3/UVIS |
| Exposure Dates | June 28, 2011 |
| Filters | F606W (V) |
| About The Image | |
| Color Info | This image was originally black and white and recorded only overall brightness. These brightness values were translated into a range of bluish hues. Such color "maps" can be useful in helping to distinguish subtly-varying brightness in an image. The colors in this image are not what human eyes would see looking at Pluto. |
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