> Images from this spectacular passage have been color enhanced, vertically scaled, and digitally combined
I was quite surprised at the height of various features. Turns out yeah Pluto's not actually that wildly mountainous.
That means it gets 1/1600 (0.06%) as much sunlight as us.
I know the eye can adapt a lot to low light, but I doubt Pluto would look anywhere as bright to a human traveller as the video shows.
The sun on Pluto is only slightly dimmer than the sun on a very strongly overcast midday on Earth (about half as bright), but still much brighter (almost 200x) than a full moon.
I'm now more optimistic for settling Jupiter's moons!
jmclnx•5h ago