Friday, September 11, 2015

First batch of Hi-Res Images from New Horizons

The New Horizons probe has started it's year long task of transmitting the high resolution images from July's historic flyby of Pluto.  The surface is even more varied than previously thought ... and extremely awesome!

Check out the details at NASA.gov
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