Pluto & Charon 3D model
Time scale
Animation 60 sec.
Represent 6.375 Earth days
Pluto 1 rotation cycles
Charon 1 orbital and rotation cycles
Points of view data
Point of view FOV Distance to Pluto center horizontal alignment Reference  
Pluto & Charon 40º 75,000 km Earth equator Pluto north pole, right down
(Earth point of view)
 
    ...to Charon center      
Charon & Pluto 45º 4,400 km Charon orbit Charon north pole up  

Pluto and Charon maps *

Pluto map
NASA map (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI) completed with fictional texture in the southern hemisphere.
Charon map
NASA map (NASA/Johns Hopkins) colored and completed with fictional texture in the southern hemisphere.

* see credits