Pluto, Charon, Nix & Hydra - Solar system in pictures

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Uploaded by on Aug 18, 2009

Images of Pluto - Charon system at the edge of our Solar system. Taken by Hubble and ground based observatories.

Note that there are not high-quality images because no probe has yet flown to Pluto. Only in July 2015 New Horizons will be flying by Pluto to obtain the scientific data.

I added animations to show the distances between moons and the planet in natural scale.

Images were taken from:
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/targetFamily/Pluto
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/solar_system/pluto/
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=2006-001A

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  • the photos are obviously fake. the light from pluto doesn't even pierce the cloud layer and Hubble telescope is only powerful enough to get pictures of pluto that are only one pixel.

  • Ahahahahhahhahaahahah =)))))))

  • BTW, You haven't gone to the OFFICIAL NASA sites that I gave you in the DESCRIPTION of this video, have you?

  • whats the song?

  • Trevor Jones - The Glade Part

    Soundtrack from "The Last of the Mohicans"

  • Where you find the Hydra and Nix pictures?

  • On the Hubblesite(dot)org type in the Search 'Hydra' or 'Nix'.

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  • Chix from Nix

  • I still call Pluto a planet who cares what "they" tell us to think

  • Is it possible that Pluto was a gas giant in the past that was flung out by gravity assist from the inner gas giants; then lost most of its atmosphere in the process?

  • its surface is actually frizen nitrogen ammoinia and methane

  • @smilenowcrylater4 Looks like i'm not the only 1 who thinks that!

  • @illcommentu it's also shocking how the two new moons orbit Pluto. They go in odd directions.

  • i like planets.......

  • wow..........

  • i really like space

  • when i found out Pluto had two new moons i was absolutely shocked, even more shocked when it was no longer considered a planet :(

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