This is the best view of Pluto most of us will see in our lifetime

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A new mosaic pieced together by NASA scientists and captured by the New Horizons spacecraft shows off the most detailed view of Pluto many of us will ever see.

The high-resolution mosaic shows a huge swath of Pluto as imaged by New Horizons when it flew close by the dwarf planet in July 2015. 

NASA had previously released many of the detailed photos that make up the mosaic, but this is the first time all of the images have been strung together.

“This new image product is just magnetic,” Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator, said in a statementRead more…

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