NASA's New Horizons probe flew past Pluto on Tuesday morning, completing a 3 billion-mile journey that began more than nine years ago. The spacecraft already has sent back the most detailed images of the dwarf planet ever recorded. The mission team is now waiting for signals from New Horizons to reach Earth on Tuesday night to confirm the probe completed its journey.
Here is New Horizons' newest image of Pluto, sent from the planet yesterday and released early this morning. Each pixel represents 4 kilometers, and the image is 1000 times the resolution of anything from Hubble.
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New Horizons phones home tonight - cypresstx, 7/14/2015, 7:18 pm