The New Horizons spacecraft NASA has published Saturday a new gallery of images of the surface of Pluto, obtained during an approach made on 14 July.
With more than 80 megapixel resolution, the new photos are the most detailed in the world so far the dwarf planet and according to the US space agency will not be able to see new records in several decades.
The images, in black and white, showing the skyline of Pluto, about 800 kilometers northwest of the frozen Plains Sputnik, and can clearly capture the mountains, craters and ice fields that exist in the distant planet. The probe could reach about 12 thousand 500 kilometers above the planet, NASA explained that due to the great distance separating Earth from the probe, the flow has been very slow.
“The new images give us a vision of super high definition on the geology of Pluto,” he said New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern said in a statement.
NASA said that scientists hope more pictures in the coming days, describing already received as “the best close-ups of Pluto that humans can see in decades.”
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