新视野号的红外图像

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Charon, Pluto’s largest moon, just before closest approach on July 14, 2015. The image combines blue, red, and infrared images taken by the spacecraft’s Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC); the colors are processed to best highlight the variation of surface properties across Charon.

New Horizons conducted a six-month-long reconnaissance flyby study of Pluto and its moons in summer 2015, helping us understand worlds at the edge of our solar system, then venturing deeper into the distant, mysterious Kuiper Belt – a relic of solar system formation. The spacecraft is now more than 5 billion miles from Earth and uses machine-learning AI software to make searches beyond the Kuiper Belt much faster and more productive.

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

2015年7月14日，NASA的新视野号探测器在最接近冥王星之前拍摄到了这张冥王星最大的卫星冥卫一的高分辨率增强彩色照片。该图像结合了探测器的拉尔夫/多光谱视觉成像相机（MVIC）拍摄的蓝色、红色和红外图像；颜色经过处理，以最好地突出冥卫一表面特性的变化。

2015年夏天，新视野号对冥王星及其卫星进行了为期6个月的侦察飞行研究，帮助我们了解太阳系边缘的世界，然后深入探索遥远而神秘的柯伊伯带——太阳系形成的遗迹。该探测器现在距离地球超过50亿英里，并使用机器学习人工智能软件来加快柯伊伯带以外的搜索速度，提高搜索效率。

影像来源：NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute