Image:Charon plutoface.png

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Reconstruction of Charon's Pluto-facing hemisphere based on photometric measurements during mutual occultation events. "Squares" are computer processing artefacts, and do not correspond to real features. Images created by Marc W. Buie (Lowell Observatory). See also Image:Plutoncharon.jpg.

Credit: Image courtesy of Marc W. Buie (Lowell Observatory)

Source: http://www.lowell.edu/users/buie/pluto/plutomap1.html, subsequently cropped to show only Charon

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