“Overlaid on a topographical map” implies this is color on top of a rendering of the planet based on some 3d data of the planet’s topography. Which sounds insanely complicated and speculation that’s just unlikely to be true. It’s much more likely that this is simply a set of photographs.
Not at all. When New Horizons was taking pictures, it was taking images within and outside of the visible spectrum. "2018" is a false-colour image that superimposes IR/UV onto the visible spectrum and that is the resultant image
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u/randylush 3d ago
“Overlaid on a topographical map” implies this is color on top of a rendering of the planet based on some 3d data of the planet’s topography. Which sounds insanely complicated and speculation that’s just unlikely to be true. It’s much more likely that this is simply a set of photographs.