This "movie" of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, was taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft as it raced toward Pluto in July 2014. Covering almost one full rotation of Charon around Pluto, the 12 images that make up the movie were taken July 19-24 with the spacecraft’s best telescopic camera – the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) – at distances ranging from about 267 million to 262 million miles (429 million to 422 million kilometers).
Charon is orbiting approximately 11,200 miles (about 18,000 kilometers) above Pluto's surface.
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
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