Pluto's blue atmosphere in the infrared

摘要

This image from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is the first look at Pluto's atmosphere in infrared wavelengths, and the first image of the atmosphere made with data from the New Horizons Ralph/Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array (LEISA) instrument. In this image, sunlight is coming from above and behind Pluto. North in this image is around the 10 o'clock position.