Pluto is really really far away, like so far that not much light from the sun should get there. why are images of Pluto so well lit?

Question

The picture in question:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/g6gz8g/pluto_in_1994_and_in_2018/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

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Answer 1

NASA paid scientists at JHU/APL to build a spaceship and fly it all the way to Pluto. That spaceship contained a camera, called [Lorri](http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Mission/Spacecraft.php#Payload ), which was specially engineered to take pictures at the light levels expected at Pluto. It’s not some off-the-shelf smartphone camera.

From the post you cite:

>It’s quite amazing how much detail is added when you can get the camera 5 billion km closer.