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    • Composite and enhanced colour images of Pluto and Charon
    Rights: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI Published 20 February 2017 Size: 69 KB Referencing Hub media

    Composite image of Pluto (lower right) and Charon (upper left). These enhanced colour images were taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on 14 July 2015.

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