On July 14, 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made its epic flight through the Pluto system and sent us the first ever close-up footage of Pluto and its satellites - a fascinating imagery that inspired many of us to wonder what a flight to the distant worlds might be like.
Mission scientists have created flyover movies that offer spectacular new perspectives of the many unusual features that were discovered and which have reshaped our views of the Pluto system – from a vantage point even closer than the spacecraft itself. They’ve been using the actual New Horizons data along with the digital elevation models of Pluto and its biggest moon - Charon.
It begins over the highlands to the southwest of the great expanse of nitrogen ice plain informally named Sputnik Planitia, then over the western margin of Sputnik, where it borders the dark, cratered terrain of Cthulhu Macula with the mountain ranges located within the plains seen on the right. The tour moves north past the rugged and fractured highlands of V
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