NASA's new images of Pluto show more detail than ever before
- 9 years ago
HOUSTON — NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has transmitted new images of Pluto that could very well be the best pictures of the dwarf planet that humans get to see for decades.
The black and white images, taken during the craft's flyby in July, offer a glimpse into our closest approach to Pluto yet. The photos were captured about 10,000 miles above Pluto's surface and show features as small as half the size of a city block.
In a mini-movie released by NASA, a six-mile stretch of varied terrain is toured, from deep layered craters to mountainous regions and glacier-covered ice fields with ice mountains.
At the time the shots were taken on July 14th, 2015, New Horizons was somewhere between two-and-a-half and four-and-a-half billion miles away from Earth. More images are on the way, but it will take about a year for all the data to be transmitted back home.
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The black and white images, taken during the craft's flyby in July, offer a glimpse into our closest approach to Pluto yet. The photos were captured about 10,000 miles above Pluto's surface and show features as small as half the size of a city block.
In a mini-movie released by NASA, a six-mile stretch of varied terrain is toured, from deep layered craters to mountainous regions and glacier-covered ice fields with ice mountains.
At the time the shots were taken on July 14th, 2015, New Horizons was somewhere between two-and-a-half and four-and-a-half billion miles away from Earth. More images are on the way, but it will take about a year for all the data to be transmitted back home.
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