Dorothy Crater is the largest known impact basin on Pluto's moon

Charon In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon (; grc, Χάρων) is a psychopomp, the ferryman of Hades, the Greek underworld. He carries the souls of those who have been given funeral rites across the rivers Acheron and Styx, which separate the wo ...

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crater Crater may refer to: Landforms *Impact crater, a depression caused by two celestial bodies impacting each other, such as a meteorite hitting a planet *Explosion crater, a hole formed in the ground produced by an explosion near or below the surfac ...

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New Horizons ''New Horizons'' is an Interplanetary spaceflight, interplanetary space probe that was launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program. Engineered by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Southwest Research ...

'' space probe in 2015 during its flyby of Pluto and its moons. It was named after Dorothy Gale from the novel '' The Wonderful Wizard of Oz''. The crater is located near Charon's north pole, and overlaps the edge of

Mordor Macula Mordor Macula is the informal name for a large red area about in diameter near the north pole of Charon, Pluto's largest moon. It is named after the black land called Mordor in J.R.R. Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings''. Origin The origin of ...

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