NASA on Tuesday morning released one of the first images of Pluto as its New Horizons spacecraft makes its closest approach to our far-flung celestial cousin.
This image was captured while New Horizons was flying 476,000 miles from Pluto's surface on July 13 at around 4 p.m. ET, about 16 hours the spacecraft makes its closest approach.
The most standout detail is Pluto's heart-shaped feature, which the spacecraft first revealed in a photo it sent back to Earth last week. NASA first released the image via Instagram, but the agency will debut a high-resolution version later in the morning.
It took nine years for New Horizons to travel 3 billion miles to Pluto. It will make its closest approach on Tuesday at 7:49 a.m. ET, beaming back images that will be even clearer than this one.
source: http://mashable.com/
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