﻿ Astronomy Picture of the Day [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2021 August 1 [2]The picture shows Pluto in enhanced colors and high resolution and seen by the passing New Horizons spacecraft in 2015. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. Pluto in Enhanced Color Image Credit: [3]NASA, [4]Johns Hopkins Univ./APL, [5]Southwest Research Inst. Explanation: [6]Pluto is more colorful than we can see. Color data and high-resolution images of our Solar System's most famous [7]dwarf planet, taken by the robotic [8]New Horizons spacecraft during its [9]flyby in 2015 July, have been digitally combined to give an [10]enhanced-color view of this ancient world sporting an unexpectedly young surface. The [11]featured enhanced color image is not only [12]esthetically pretty but [13]scientifically useful, making surface regions of differing chemical composition visually distinct. For example, the light-colored heart-shaped [14]Tombaugh Regio on the lower right is clearly shown here to be divisible into two regions that are [15]geologically different, with the leftmost lobe [16]Sputnik Planitia also appearing unusually smooth. After Pluto, New Horizons continued on, shooting [17]past asteroid Arrokoth in 2019 and has [18]enough speed to escape our [19]Solar [20]System completely. Pluto-Related Images with Brief Explanations: [21]APOD Pluto Search Tomorrow's picture: deep galaxy sounds __________________________________________________________________ [22]< | [23]Archive | [24]Submissions | [25]Index | [26]Search | [27]Calendar | [28]RSS | [29]Education | [30]About APOD | [31]Discuss | [32]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [33]Robert Nemiroff ([34]MTU) & [35]Jerry Bonnell ([36]UMCP) NASA Official: Phillip Newman [37]Specific rights apply. [38]NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices A service of: [39]ASD at [40]NASA / [41]GSFC & [42]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2108/PlutoEnhancedHiRes_NewHorizons_5000.jpg 3. https://www.nasa.gov/ 4. https://www.jhuapl.edu/ 5. https://www.swri.edu/ 6. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/dwarf-planets/pluto/overview/ 7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_planet 8. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/spacecraft/index.html 9. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150714.html 10. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/dwarf-planets/pluto/in-depth/ 11. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19952 12. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130401.html 13. http://littleheroes.s3.amazonaws.com/website_images/blog/science-project-a-3.jpg 14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Pluto#Tombaugh_Regio 15. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7yXXCSR3_UB12gNWETiygA 16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_Planitia 17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191118.html 18. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons#Speed 19. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/our-solar-system/in-depth/ 20. https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/menu/solar-system/ 21. http://apod.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search?tquery=Pluto 22. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210731.html 23. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 24. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 25. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 26. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 27. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 28. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss 29. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 30. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 31. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=210801 32. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210802.html 33. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 34. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 35. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 36. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 37. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 38. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 39. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 40. https://www.nasa.gov/ 41. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 42. http://www.mtu.edu/