We all knew this day was coming. After months of enjoying increasingly detailed images of Pluto, we've finally reached the peak: The most detailed images acquired by New Horizons during its July flyby of the distant dwarf planet. As it's unlikely that another Pluto-centric mission will occur anytime soon, we can basically assume that these are the most detailed images many of us will ever see of the alien world.
The new images have resolutions of about 250-280 feet per pixel, which amounts to features the size of half a city block. We've gone from seeing Pluto as a distant, smudgy blur of light to seeing details a few hundred feet in size. Click here to veiw more images.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/12/05/nasa-releases-the-first-batch-of-its-sharpest-images-of-pluto/?tid=ss_tw
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