Careful: Pluto would not look like these latest pictures to the naked eye. This image is constructed from blue, red, and near-IR color channels that have been m

Careful: Pluto would not look like these latest pictures to the naked eye. This image is constructed from blue, red, and near-IR color channels that have been mapped to blue, green, and red in the pictures. There's a bit more about how this image was constructed here: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/09241425-lose-yourself-in-this-pluto.html http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/0924142... (The earlier "true color" pictures shared over the summer were created indirectly: my understanding is that they fit a spectral curve to the raw blue, red, IR data and then used software to reconstruct the green channel.)