Pluto 'paints' its largest moon Charon red
Wednesday, September 14, 2016 - 13:41
in Astronomy & Space
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.