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A New Look at Pluto: Hey There Mister Blue, We’re So Pleased to Be With You…

Not unlike what’s found here on Earth, the faraway dwarf planet* Pluto has a sky tinted blue with scattered sunlight, as seen in the latest image from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft!

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Here's a view from #Mars assembled from two left navcam images captured by NASA’s Perseverance rover on June 23, 2022.
This animation is made from 358 images captured by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft over the course of 24 hours as it was traveling away from #Earth 🌏 on August 2-3, 2005 on its way to Venus and then Mercury.
A view of #Mars made from images captured with the EXI camera aboard the UAE's @HopeMarsMission orbiter on November 22, 2021 from a distance of 20,118 km.
This little jellybean is Polydeuces, a 3x2-km #moon of Saturn🪐 imaged with Cassini's narrow-angle camera on June 16, 2015 #OTD from a distance of 36,814 km. Polydeuces follows the much larger moon Dione in its orbit, wandering around its trailing Lagrangian point.
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