Image Gallery: new Pluto images from New Horizons

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Composite of three new Pluto images. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Paul Scott Anderson

These are the newest images of Pluto from New Horizons, taken from May 8-12, 2015, at a distance of just under 77 million kilometres (50 million miles). More detail on the surface can be seen now, with a lot of albedo variations. Not much longer now until closest approach on July 14, when the best images then will have 5,000 times the resolution of these ones!

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