NASA NEWS: New Horizons, The best of Pluto
Although Pluto was demoted from full planetary status (it has been considered a dwarf planet since 2006), NASA said that exploring Pluto and its neighborhood remained one of their highest priorities.
This may be the closest we ever get to landing on Pluto.
After a journey of nine years and about 3 billion miles, The New Horizons spacecraft had a close-encounter with Pluto at 7:50 a.m. EDT July 14, 2015, closing to a distance of about 7,800 miles from the dwarf planet and its system of five known moons.
NASA has released a video (non computer-generated) showing the surface of Pluto using about 100 photos captured over the course of six weeks by the New Horizons spacecraft as it approached Pluto,
"This video shows what it would be like to ride aboard an approaching spacecraft and see Pluto grow to become a world, and then to swoop down over its spectacular terrains as if we were approaching some future landing."
Pluto Picrtures
