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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Source:
NASA, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Southwest Research Institute
Date:
13 July 2015
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