Using actual New Horizons data and digital elevation models of Pluto
and its largest moon Charon, mission scientists have created flyover
movies that offer spectacular new perspectives of the many unusual
features that were discovered and which have reshaped our views of the
Pluto system – from a vantage point even closer than the spacecraft
itself.
The exciting flight over Charon begins high over the hemisphere New Horizons saw on its closest approach, then descends
over the deep, wide canyon of Serenity Chasma. The view moves north,
passing over Dorothy Gale crater and the dark polar hood of Mordor
Macula. The flight then turns south, covering the northern terrain of Oz
Terra before ending over the relatively flat equatorial plains of
Vulcan Planum and the “moated mountains” of Clarke Montes.
Digital mapping and rendering were performed by Paul Schenk and John Blackwell of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.
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