Image Gallery: Pluto Just Before Closest Approach

Photo Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
Photo Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

The best ever photo of Pluto so far was just released by NASA as New Horizons neared closest approach (and successfully completed), taken on July 13, 2015 from a distance of 768,000 kilometres (476,000 miles). We can now see this world in detail for the first time in history. The probe is now on the other side of Pluto, heading outward. Many more images from closest approach are to come, and a lot of other data, starting tomorrow!

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