The Hubble Space Telescope took some fairly detailed photos of Pluto recently!

For the first time, everyone can get a decent view of what the dwarf-planet really looks like…

First Images of Pluto

Wow. That’s not at all what I imagined it would look like.

NASA’s website says… “The images taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope show an icy and dark molasses-colored, mottled world that is undergoing seasonal changes in its surface color and brightness. Pluto has become significantly redder, while its illuminated northern hemisphere is getting brighter. These changes are most likely consequences of surface ices sublimating on the sunlit pole and then refreezing on the other pole as the dwarf planet heads into the next phase of its 248-year-long seasonal cycle. The dramatic change in color apparently took place in a two-year period, from 2000 to 2002.”

Here’s the link to the NASA site with the photos and article on how it was done.