"This is the most detailed view of Pluto's terrain you'll see for a very long time."

The top of the image begins at Pluto's craterous "limb," before descending through some "washboard" terrain, a collection of sharp, chaotic mountains and a stretch of nitrogen ice plains. Towards the bottom, near the "terminator" line -- which separates day and night -- these fields give way to rugged highlands punctuated with deep, dark pits. The width of the strip varies from more than 55 miles (90 kilometers) at the top to roughly 45 miles (75 kilometers) at the bottom. It was captured with the LORRI (Long Range Reconnaissance Imager) camera on board New Horizons.