The Hubble Space Telescope imaged [ http://www.ast.cam.…] Pluto and its moon Charon in 1994. Pluto [ http://seds.lpl.ari…] is usually the most distant planet from the Sun [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] but because of its elliptic orbit Pluto crossed inside of Neptune [ http://www.c3.lanl.…] is smaller than any other planet and even smaller than several other planet’s moons. From Pluto, the Sun is just a tiny point of light. Pluto [ http://dosxx.colora…] is probably composed of frozen rock and ice, much like Neptune’s moon Triton [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. Pluto has not yet been visited by a spacecraft, but a mission [ http://www.jpl.nasa…] is being planned for the next decade. Tomorrow’s picture: Our Solar System from Voyager

Credit and Copyright:
NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/], Hubble Space Telescope [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…], R. Albrecht (ESA/ESO [ http://www.esrin.es…])
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Triton
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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http://antwrp.gsfc.…
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Tags: galaxy, nasa, photo, Pluto: The Frozen Planet, space, star, Universe

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