Imaging recource: 3 billion miles, 4.5 hours of shutter lag: The closest and most incredible photos from Pluto

It may have taken 9.5 years, but NASA’s New Horizons mission has finally been completed, sending back high-resolution photos of Pluto, its surface and its moons for the first time ever. Until now, the closest image we had of Pluto’s surface is the image below, captured in 2010 by the Hubble Space Telescope. This is due to the incredible distance the dwarf planet is, leaving even the most powerful telescopes hopeless to capture its surface. It may have taken almost a decade to get New Horizons to Pluto, but once it was there,...
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