NASA has released a fresh batch of Pluto photos, and they are exquisite.
We're just now seeing them — months after we first encountered the dwarf planet — because the New Horizons spacecraft can only trickle the images back to Earth from billions of miles away.
Despite this hurdle, the new shots are among the most detailed views of Pluto that scientists have ever seen. And, like other recent images, they're sowing a lot of mystery.
Keep scrolling to get a close-up look at a frozen world that continues to be weirder than anyone expected.
This new photo shows what you'd see if you could float about 1,000 miles above Pluto's equator.
Most of the above image is dominated by this flat, bright plain in the middle that scientists have named "Sputnik Planum."
The plain is composed of a smooth ice layer, but scientists are not sure what the darker, bumpy region in the bottom left corner is or what it's made of.
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