{"id":251313,"date":"2025-07-15T02:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=ef8709fe64378ddbd8f4e3313bae4a7e"},"modified":"2025-07-15T02:00:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T16:00:56","slug":"10-years-ago-nasas-new-horizons-captures-plutos-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=251313","title":{"rendered":"10 Years Ago: NASA\u2019s New Horizons Captures Pluto\u2019s Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NASA\/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory\/Southwest Research Institute\/Alex Parker<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

This image, taken by NASA’s New Horizons<\/a> spacecraft on July 14, 2015, is the most accurate natural color image of Pluto<\/a>. This natural-color image results from refined calibration of data gathered by New Horizons’ color Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC). The processing creates images that would approximate the colors that the human eye would perceive, bringing them closer to \u201ctrue color\u201d than the images released near the encounter. This single color MVIC scan includes no data from other New Horizons imagers or instruments added. The striking features on Pluto are clearly visible, including the bright expanse of Pluto’s icy, nitrogen-and-methane rich “heart,” Sputnik Planitia.<\/p>\n

Image credit: NASA\/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory\/Southwest Research Institute\/Alex Parker<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This image, taken by NASA\u2019s New Horizons spacecraft\u00a0on July 14, 2015, is the most accurate natural color image of Pluto. This natural-color image results from refined calibration of data gathered by New Horizons\u2019 color Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC). The processing creates images that would approximate the colors that the human eye would perceive, bringing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17441,17442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-horizons","category-pluto"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251790,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251313\/revisions\/251790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}