First Ever Color Photo Of Pluto And Charon Sent Back By New Horizons Spacecraft

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NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute. Pluto and Charon as seen from New Horizons with a color imager on April 9, 2015.

It doesn't look like much, but the image above is the first color photograph taken of Pluto and Charon by the New Horizons spacecraft as it heads for its flyby of the icy worlds in July.