This false-color image of Pluto is perfect for the Christmas holiday season.
Pluto gets into the holiday spirit, decked out in red and green. This image was produced by the New Horizons composition team, using a pair of Ralph/LEISA instrument scans obtained at approximately 9:40 AM on July 14, from a mean range of 67,000 miles (108,000 kilometers). The resolution is about 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) per LEISA pixel. Three infrared wavelength ranges (2.28-2.23, 1.25-1.30, and 1.64-1.73 microns) were placed into the three color channels (red, green, and blue, respectively) to create this false-color Christmas portrait.
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