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Pluto and Charon spills the can of beans of there far-sides even more

Posted: 04.03.2022, 20:47
by trappistplanets
I found this a long while back, but
found this paper on LIMB topography of Pluto and Charon, and a chunk of the LIMB topography penetrates the object's blurry side
turned the topography gradients into greyscale elevation, than edited brightness and contrast to match the dems on USGS
and fused them together (to preserve the data, there is no seam fixing done to make the LIMB data blend even more with everything else)
Charon-dem (known).png

pluto-dem.png


Slowly we are mapping these worlds even firther than i thought was possible, night-shine revealing the southern quarters of these worlds, LIMB topography revealing snip bits of the topography of the object's poorly imaged sides, like just WOW
i hope in the future there would be better processing ways and reveal even more features on the darksides of these cold dark worlds, or even send a orbiter (this was proposed https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/07/14/five-years- ... ,is getting there, Howett said.)