Charon, Pluto’s largest moon, wears a red cap. Charon’s north pole has a dark red color, starkly different from its otherwise gray-white surface, and scientists have finally found out why.

The red cap on Pluto's moon Charon results when ultraviolet light and the solar wind interact with hydrocarbons and turn them into a soup of organic compounds called tholins.

Two months from a historic flyby of Pluto, New Horizons is now detecting surface features on the icy world for the first time. ... NASA probe detects possible polar cap on Pluto.

NASA’s New Horizons probe has picked up a bright spot on Pluto's surface that may indicate a polar ice cap, as it zooms towards its close flyby this summer. The latest images from the almost ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has spotted surface features on the icy world, including a possible polar cap, images released on Wednesday show.

New images of Pluto suggest the dwarf planet has a polar ice cap. That cap, and other features, were seen in images taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft that for the first time offer better ...

NASA. (2015, May 1). NASA's New Horizons detects surface features, possible polar cap on Pluto. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 05 / 150501114308.htm ...

New images from the approaching New Horizons probe approaching Pluto indicate it Pluto might have a polar cap of nitrogen ice, NASA says. The observation came in a series of pixilated images taken ...

Possible Polar Cap on Pluto. April 7, 2017 April 30, 2015 by Brian Wang. For the first time, images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft are revealing bright and dark regions on the surface of faraway ...

This series of images of Pluto and it largest moon, Charon, was taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft between April 12-18, 2015. The spacecraft's distance from Pluto decreased from about 69 ...

NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has spotted surface features on the icy world, including a possible polar cap, images released on Wednesday show.

Scientists believe Pluto could have a polar ice cap, after analysing the first images received from the New Horizons spacecraft. Although the dwarf planet appears as little much more than a ...