NASA Takes Pics Of Kerberos Pluto’s Smallest Moon

NASA has done it again and new pics of Pluto’s smallest moon Kerberos have been sent back:

Images of Pluto’s tiny moon Kerberos taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft –and just sent back to Earth this week – complete the family portrait of Pluto’s moons.

Kerberos appears to be smaller than scientists expected and has a highly-reflective surface, counter to predictions prior to the Pluto flyby in July. “Once again, the Pluto system has surprised us,” said New Horizons Project Scientist Hal Weaver, of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.

Let’s find out more about this little talked about moon in the video on page 2

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