The money shot
This high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto, taken on July 14, 2015, is one of the greatest images ever captured by a spacecraft. “Pluto’s surface sports a remarkable range of subtle colors, enhanced in this view to a rainbow of pale blues, yellows, oranges, and deep reds,” NASA wrote, adding that the various “landforms have their own distinct colors, telling a complex geological and climatological story that scientists have only just begun to decode.” New Horizons came to within 7,800 miles (12,500 km) of Pluto during the painfully brief flyby.
