The film above shows us that New Horizons has arrived at Pluto and is already sending back amazing imagery. Here is the story from
NASA concerning the film above:
This is the first movie created by New Horizons to reveal color
surface features of Pluto and its largest moon Charon. “It’s a bit
unusual to see so much surface detail at this distance,” said New
Horizons co-investigator William McKinnon of the Geology and Geophysics
Investigation Team, Washington University in Saint Louis. “What’s
especially noteworthy is the level of detail in both bodies. It’s
certainly whetting our appetite for what’s to come.”
The images were taken between June 23 and June 29, 2015, as New
Horizons’ distance to Pluto decreased from a distance of 15 million to
11 million miles (24 million to 18 million kilometers). Six
high-resolution black-and-white images from New Horizons’ LORRI
instrument were combined with color data from the Ralph instrument to
produce the movie.
