This image of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, was taken by the Ralph color imager aboard New Horizons on April 9, 2015, from a distance of about 71 million miles (115 million kilometers). It is the first color image ever made of the Pluto system by a spacecraft on approach.

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*The traces of mankind buried under the sands of Mars.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA19159

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