Resumen de Pluto is painting its moon Charon red
Eight months after the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto, the tiny world and its moons are still offering up surprises. A series of startling links between Pluto, Charon, their four smaller satellites and the space environment that surrounds them all have been revealed by new analyses of the mission data. New Horizons has revealed that the four smaller moons have bright surfaces, which suggests they are mostly composed of water-ice. That is similar to Pluto and Charon, adding weight to the idea that the small moons are chips left over from the Charon-forming collision. But the resemblance stops there: the four small moons spin rapidly and asynchronously, while Pluto and Charon are locked in a face-to-face dance
