Pluto System Illustration (IMAGE)

University of Maryland

Pluto System Illustration

Caption

This illustration depicts Pluto and its five moons from a perspective looking away from the sun. It is adapted from a classic Voyager I montage of Jupiter’s Galilean moons, and is intended to highlight similarities between the Pluto and Jupiter systems when adjusted for size. Approaching the system, the outermost moon is Hydra, seen in the bottom left corner. The other moons are roughly scaled to the sizes they would appear from this perspective, although they are all enlarged relative to the planet.

Credit

NASA/JPL/M. Showalter, SETI Institute

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