<b>Original caption</b>: The first color image of Ultima Thule, taken at a distance of 85,000 miles (137,000 kilometers) at 4:08 Universal Time on January 1, 2019, highlights its reddish surface. At left is an enhanced color image taken by the Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC), produced by combining the near infrared, red and blue channels. The center image taken by the Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) has a higher spatial resolution than MVIC by approximately a factor of five. At right, the color has been overlaid onto the LORRI image to show the color uniformity of the Ultima and Thule lobes. Note the reduced red coloring at the neck of the object.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA" class="extiw" title="w:NASA">National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johns_Hopkins_University_Applied_Physics_Laboratory" class="extiw" title="w:Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory">Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL)</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Research_Institute" class="extiw" title="w:Southwest Research Institute">Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)</a>
2019-01-01 04:08
"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Galleries/Featured-Images/image.php?page=1&amp;gallery_id=2&amp;image_id=578">First color image of Ultima Thule</a>"