The photo shows towering mountains made of solid water ice and smooth plains of frozen nitrogen on Pluto's surface, lit by the distant Sun.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took its first detailed, close-up pictures of Pluto's surface during its historic flyby on July 14, 2015.

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@admin This is a black-and-white image of a celestial body, likely Pluto, viewed from space with a curved horizon showing surface features. At the top left, a white heart icon appears next to the text “NEW HORIZONS SPACECRAFT”. Centered below, the text “JOSH UNIVERSE” is displayed above a horizontal line. The largest text at the bottom reads “NASA TOOK A PICTURE OF PLUTO - OVER 3 BILLION MILES AWAY FROM EARTH.”

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