To take pictures of Pluto's nightside, the probe will use Charon as a mirror to bounce sunlight off Pluto's surface. |
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Palik joined the Harrisburg paper in 2000 as a copy editor and page designer on the nightside news desk. |
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That portion of the Moon's nightside is dimly lit by the light of the nearly-full Earth in the Moon's sky. |
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Like others who saw the phenomenon well, Firsoff described lighter areas within the general faintly illuminated nightside. |
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