r/interestingasfuck • u/Puzzleheaded_Web5245 • 3d ago

Views of pluto through the years r/all

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u/halcyann 3d ago

"2018" is just a false color image from the same New Horizons mission

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u/KillTheBronies 3d ago

And "1996" is just a composite of the 1994 hubble images.

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u/Daniil_Dankovskiy 3d ago

Not really, it's a result of theorizing about which parts of the surface are brighter or darker. I don't think that's a proper image or a co posited of images, it's a rendered model

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u/KillTheBronies 3d ago

It is a rendered model but the surface texture is from real images.

https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00826

This map was assembled by computer image processing software from four separate images of Pluto's disk taken with the European Space Agency's (ESA) Faint Object Camera (FOC) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble imaged nearly the entire surface, as Pluto rotated on its axis in late June and early July 1994.

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u/Daniil_Dankovskiy 3d ago

Interesting, thanks for clarifying