NASA Released New Video Showing Pluto's Terrain

NASA recently released a new video that showed the most detailed view of Pluto's terrain yet. The mosaic of images extended across the hemisphere facing the New Horizon's spacecraft as it flew past Pluto on July 14, 2015 showed the highest-resolutions taken by the NASA Probe.

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The video released showed the mosaic from top to bottom, offering views of the landscapes along the way -- with cratered uplands on top. and crosses over parallel ridges of a "washboard terrain," with angular mountain ranges, cellular plains, and pitted areas of nitrogen ice draped over the topography.

NASA already previously released detailed photos, but this is the first time that they were strung together to create the mosaic. New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern said in a statement, “This new image product is just magnetic. It makes me want to go back on another mission to Pluto and get high-resolution images like these across the entire surface.”

The organization said that the perspective across the strip changes: at the northern end, the view looks out horizontally, while at the southern end, the view is shown to see traight down. All in all, the images showcased in a new video brings Pluto's nitrogen ice-filled flat plains to life.

The photos found in the mosaic were gathered by New Horizons's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), at about 9,850 miles away from Pluto, and around 23 minutes before their closest approach.

The Daily Mail noted that earlier this month, NASA also reseased a composite map with an incredibly detailed look at the celestial body.

All imagery is expected to on Earth as soon as early fall, but for the mean time, NASA is working on improving color maps.

As for the distinctive heart-shaped feature (Sputnik Planum) the region around its left side is said to have a vast expanse of icy surface that on average is 2 miles lower than the surrounding terrain.