New NASA photos show sharpest close-up shot of Pluto

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.

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Nasa: New Horizons will fly by Pluto tommorow at 7:49 am EDT

It is the culmination of a momentous journey that has taken the New Horizons spacecraft 9 1/2 years and 3 billion miles of space flight to complete, tomorrow the New Horizons space craft will fly by 7,767 miles above Pluto which is the closest it will get to the surface, New Horizons will also pass by Pluto's moon Charon.

New Horizons, weighing less than 1,000 pounds including fuel, has seven instruments that will be going full force during the encounter. Pluto, which is considered a dwarf and no longer a planet. We won't be seeing what New Horizon sees on Pluto until sometime on Wednesday, when New Horizon phones home and sends images and data from the site. This is history in the making, folks.

Source: NASA