Pluto: July 3, 2011 (WFC/UVIS)

About the colours

This image was originally black and white and recorded only overall brightness. These brightness values were translated into a range of bluish hues. Such color "maps" can be useful in helping to distinguish subtly-varying brightness in an image. The colors in this image are not what human eyes would see looking at Pluto.

About the data

This image was created from HST data from proposal 12436 : M. Showalter (SETI Institute) and D. Hamilton (University of Maryland).