Best views yet of Pluto

NASA’s New Horizons probe has sent back the first of the sharpest images of Pluto it took during its July flyby of the planet.¹

These latest images form a strip 50 miles (80 kilometers) wide on a world 3 billion miles away. The pictures trend from Pluto’s jagged horizon about 500 miles (800 kilometers) northwest of the informally named Sputnik Planum, across the al-Idrisi mountains, over the shoreline of Sputnik, and across its icy plains.

View the new image at high resolution here or watch a video scroll of the imagery:

1. Oh yes, I went there. Bring it, NDT.↩

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