mountains and glaciers, may be the sharpest close-ups humans will lay eyes on for decades. The new set of images were captured during New Horizons' closest flyby of Pluto from a distance of 10,000 ...

capturing this near-sunset view of the dwarf planet’s icy mountains and flat ice plains. The image was taken from a distance of 11,000 miles (18,000 kilometers) from Pluto; the scene is 780 ...

The images reveal a varied surface with frozen plains and ice mountains. The piano-size spacecraft traveled nine years and three billion miles to study the dwarf planet and its five moons.