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Nix is the third moon of Pluto by distance, orbiting between the moons Styx and Kerberos. [11] Nix was imaged along with Pluto and its other moons by the New Horizons spacecraft as it flew by the Pluto system in July 2015. [12] Images from the New Horizons spacecraft reveal a large reddish area on Nix that is likely an impact crater. [13]
English: This recently received panchromatic image of Pluto's small satellite Nix taken by the Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) aboard New Horizons is one of the best images of Pluto's third-largest moon generated by the NASA mission. Taken on July 14, 2015, at a range of about 14,000 miles (23,000 kilometers) from Nix, the ...
The Pluto system was visited by the New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015. Images with resolutions of up to 330 meters per pixel were returned of Nix and up to 1.1 kilometers per pixel of Hydra. Lower-resolution images were returned of Styx and Kerberos. [40]
NASA launched the New Horizon spacecraft in 2006 to learn more about the icy dwarf planet Pluto. Here are some of the first photos from that mission, taken from between 125 and 115 million miles away.
NASA's New Horizons probe has returned the first color images of Pluto. The small blurry dots in the newly-released photo are Pluto and Charon, the largest of Pluto's moons. New Horizons captured ...
Pages in category "Moons of Pluto" ... Nix (moon) S. Kerberos (moon) Styx (moon) This page was last edited on 22 November 2022, at 21:30 ...
Pluto’s rubber-duck-shaped moon Hydra has a surface covered in large, icy grains. 29. Valetudo. Jupiter’s prograde moon Valetudo lies in a region where most other moons have retrograde orbits ...
Kerberos is a small natural satellite of Pluto, about 19 km (12 mi) in its longest dimension.Kerberos is also the second-smallest moon of Pluto, after Styx.It was the fourth moon of Pluto to be discovered and its existence was announced on 20 July 2011. [1]