The space race and the digital age gave us opportunities for closer observation, but none so close as NASA's New Horizons probe. It passed less than 10,000 miles (17,000 kilometers) from Pluto's surface in July 2015. In December, it began sending back its best images of the dwarf planet's surface. As Alan Stern, the project's principal investigator, said: “The science we can do with these images is simply unbelievable." Check a few of them out in the above NOW video. … [Read more...] about Our Closest Look Ever at Pluto’s Weird, Beautiful Surface
