The New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto in July, and every week it has been sending back data it recorded. The latest images it has sent back were taken on its closest approach to Pluto, and they're the clearest we'll see for some time.

These new pictures have a resolution of around 250-280 feet per pixel which, according to NASA, reveal "features less than half the size of a city block on Pluto's diverse surface." The images show "a wide variety of cratered, mountainous and glacial terrains."


"These new images give us a breathtaking, super-high resolution window into Pluto’s geology," said New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern. John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, said "we continue to be amazed by what we see."

The video above and the photo below give you an idea of what the images have captured, but the full size image can be found on NASA's website.

http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/fi...badlands_0.jpg

Space is cool, great pic