New Horizons Close Up of Pluto s Surface

This animation which extends across the hemisphere that faced the New Horizons spacecraft as it flew past Pluto on July 14, 2015, includes all of the highestresolution images taken by the NASA probe. With a resolution of about 260 feet (80 meters) per pixel. . The view extends from the limb of Pluto, almost to the terminator (or day, night line) in the southeast of the encounter hemisphere. NASA, JHUAPL, SwRI, Roman Tkachenko Twitter: