It doesn't get any better than this: NASA has just released the highest-resolution photos ever taken of Pluto. New photos published Friday represent the first of the highest-resolution images taken of Pluto during New Horizons' close flyby of the dwarf planet in July 2015. The images have a resolution of about 250 to 280 feet per pixel which means that the pictures reveal "features less than half the size of a city block", according to NASA.
“These new images give us a breathtaking, super-high resolution window into Pluto’s geology,” New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern, said in a statement. “Nothing of this quality was available for Venus or Mars until decades after their first flybys; yet at Pluto we’re there already – down among the craters, mountains and ice fields – less than five months after flyby! The science we can do with these images is simply unbelievable."
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