UltimaThule CA06 color 20190516

Författare/Upphovsman:

NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Roman Tkachenko.

Kreditera:

Image provided from two sources: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-s-new-horizons-team-publishes-first-kuiper-belt-flyby-science-results and
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20190516
Direct image: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Galleries/Featured-Images/image.php?gallery_id=2&image_id=606

Kort länk:

https://sewiki.info/b/47bf3

Källa:

Wikimedia Commons

Upplösning:

1860 x 1302 Pixel (1013714 Bytes)

Beskrivning:

This composite image of the primordial contact binary Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69 (official designation: (486958) Arrokoth, nickname: Ultima Thule - the bigger part is Ultima, the smaller one Thule) – featured on the cover of the May 17 issue of the journal Science – was compiled from data obtained by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft as it flew by the object on Jan. 1, 2019. The image combines enhanced color data (close to what the human eye would see) with detailed high-resolution panchromatic pictures.

Licens:

Public domain