(Old) picture of Pluto captured by the New Horizons spacecraft (sopuli.xyz)

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Does anyone know why it looks like Pluto has an atmosphere in this picture?

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[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I wasn’t thinking about the atmosphere. I meant in general, Pluto surprised more than other first fly-bys. Uranus is obviously extra weird in a lot of ways but who was expecting Pluto to be as interesting?

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