HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING OF THE PLUTO-CHARON SYSTEM WITH THE FAINT OBJECT CAMERA OF THE HUBBLE-SPACE-TELESCOPE

Images of the Pluto-Charon system were obtained with the Faint Object Camera (FOC) of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) after the refurbishme nt of the telescope. The images are of superb quality, allowing the de termination of radii, fluxes, and albedos. Attempts were made to impro ve the resolution of the already diffraction limited images by image r estoration. These yielded indications of surface albedo distributions qualitatively consistent with models derived from observations of Plut o-Charon mutual eclipses.