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Pluto Revealed!

By Kevin at Tue, 07/14/2015 - 1:46pm

Pluto July 13

 

Here is the best image of Pluto before its historic flyby of Pluto. This image was taken on July 13 and released on the morning of July 14.

 

Note there will be no additional images from the spacecraft until Wednesday, July 15. Some additional images from the flyby will be beamed back to Earth, arriving at around 3 p.m. on Wednesday and released soon after.

 

For the latest images and news about the mission see:

NASA website

or the New Horizons website