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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                    2025 May 19   
      
                         Charon Flyover from New Horizons   
         Video Credit: NASA, JHUAPL, SwRI, P. Schenk & J. Blackwell (LPI);   
                               Music: Juicy by ALBIS   
      
      Explanation: What if you could fly over Pluto's moon Charon -- what   
      might you see? The New Horizons spacecraft did just this in 2015 July   
      as it zipped past Pluto and Charon with cameras blazing. The images   
      recorded allowed for a digital reconstruction of much of Charon's   
      surface, further enabling the creation of fictitious flights over   
      Charon created from this data. One such fanciful, minute-long,   
      time-lapse video is shown here with vertical heights and colors of   
      surface features digitally enhanced. Your journey begins over a wide   
      chasm that divides different types of Charon's landscapes, a chasm that   
      might have formed when Charon froze through. You soon turn north and   
      fly over a colorful depression dubbed Mordor that, one hypothesis   
      holds, is an unusual remnant from an ancient impact. Your voyage   
      continues over an alien landscape rich with never-before-seen craters,   
      mountains, and crevices. The robotic New Horizons spacecraft has too   
      much momentum to ever return to Pluto and Charon and is now headed out   
      of our Solar System.   
      
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