File:Nh-charon-closeup.jpg

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Summary

View of Charon, from a distance of 466,000 km. Color added from the spectrophotometer aboard New Horizons.

A swath of cliffs and troughs stretches about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) from left to right, suggesting widespread fracturing of Charon’s crust, likely a result of internal processes. At upper right, along the moon’s curving edge, is a canyon estimated to be 4 to 6 miles (7 to 9 kilometers) deep.

Charon has remarkably few impact craters. Astro-geologists cannot yet fully explain the apparent lack of bombardment.

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NASA, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Southwest Research Institute

Date:

13 July 2015

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current22:23, 15 July 2015Thumbnail for version as of 22:23, 15 July 20151,050 × 794 (257 KB)TemlakosView of Charon, from a distance of 466,000 km. Color added from the spectrophotometer aboard New Horizons. A swath of cliffs and troughs stretches about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) from left to right, suggesting widespread fracturing of Charon’s crust

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