Close-up flyover of Pluto (Closer than ever)

This flyover movie is produced using mosaic image composed of the sharpest views of Pluto that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft obtained during its flyby of the distant planet on July 14, 2015.
The pictures are part of a sequence taken near New Horizons’ closest approach to Pluto, with resolutions of about 250-280 feet (77-85 meters) per pixel – revealing features smaller than half a city block on Pluto’s diverse surface. The mosaic image combines pictures from the telescopic Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) taken approximately 15 minutes before New Horizons’ closest approach to Pluto, - with color data (in near-infrared, red and blue) gathered by the Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) 25 minutes before the LORRI pictures.

NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/Roman Tkachenko

[EricRivera]

You saw those trails and foot prints right? (:

[AIainMConnachie]

Wow. What an incredibly alluring, incredibly bizarre, wee planet. Reminds me of that old apothegm (was it Eddington?): The universe is not only weirder than we imagine, it is weirder than we CAN imagine.

Just reminds us, right here in our own tiny apron of backyard, so much unexpected. And yet we have the hubris to say we "know" so much about exoplanets, etc. If we were honest, we'd say, "Here be dragons" & leave it at that.