Who thought this would be possible?

It’s 2015 and the future is here.  We now have up close pics of the surface of the most distant planet in our solar system.  It is remarkable we have gotten this far with the New Horizon’s mission, something we may have thought impossible in the 70s or 80s.

Here is a brief intro on this incredible footage:

This movie is composed of the sharpest views of Pluto that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft obtained during its flyby on July 14, 2015. The pictures are part of a sequence taken near New Horizons’ closest approach to Pluto, with resolutions of about 250-280 feet (77-85 meters) per pixel – revealing features smaller than half a city block on Pluto’s diverse surface. The images include a wide variety of cratered, mountainous and glacial terrains – giving scientists and the public alike a super-high resolution view of Pluto’s complexity.

We hope you enjoy the video and we’re looking to more from this mission.

thanks to sciencealert.com for the great info

thanks to NASA for the pic