Images of Pluto from NASA
New close-up images reveal a range of mountains rising as high as 3500 metres, believed to be relatively young - formed a mere 100 million years ago. Photo: NASA / JHUAPL
Remarkable new details of Pluto’s largest moon Charon are revealed in this image from New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), taken from a distance of 289,000 miles (466,000 kilometers). Photo: NASA / JHUAPL
Guests and New Horizons team members countdown to the spacecraft's closest approach to Pluto, Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland. Photo: NASA / Bill Ingalls
The latest spectra from New Horizons Ralph instrument reveal an abundance of methane ice, but with striking differences from place to place across the frozen surface of Pluto.
New Horizons Flight Controllers celebrate after they received confirmation from the spacecraft that it had successfully completed the flyby of Pluto, Tuesday, July 14, 2015 in the Mission Operations Center (MOC) of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Laurel, Maryland.
Photo: NASA / Bill Ingalls
Pluto’s North Pole, Equator, and Central Meridian. Photo: NASA
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