We can’t help but want to understand the space beyond ours and the new photos released by NASA show us possibly the sharpest images we can see of Pluto for decades to come. Taken in July during New Horizons’ closest flyby to the dwarf planet, the series of images captured by the spacecraft’s Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) were taken from 10,000 miles away with a 250 to 280 feet per pixel resolution. What does this mean? NASA says these images are six times better than the global Pluto map the space agency released earlier. You can see the image stitched together under the link.
What you see here is a 50-mile strip filled with craters, ice fields, and mountains. It looks almost like one of our polar regions was filmed from a helicopter.
