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Pluto 'paints' its largest moon red

Sep 15, 2016, at 03:22 pm

California, Sept 15 (IBNS): In June 2015, when the cameras on NASA’s approaching New Horizons spacecraft first spotted the large reddish polar region on Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, mission scientists knew two things: they’d never seen anything like it elsewhere in our solar system, and they couldn’t wait to get the story behind it.

Hubble discovers moon orbiting the dwarf planet makemake

Apr 27, 2016, at 02:50 pm

Washington, Apr 27 (Just Earth News/IBNS) Peering to the outskirts of our solar system, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a small, dark moon orbiting Makemake, the second brightest icy dwarf planet — after Pluto — in the Kuiper Belt.