It doesn't get any better than this: NASA has just released the highest-resolution photos ever taken of Pluto.

New photos published Friday represent the first of the highest-resolution images taken of Pluto during New Horizons' close flyby of the dwarf planet in July 2015. The images have a resolution of about 250 to 280 feet per pixel which means that the pictures reveal "features less than half the size of a city block", according to NASA.

“These new images give us a breathtaking, super-high resolution window into Pluto’s geology,” New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern, said in a statement. “Nothing of this quality was available for Venus or Mars until decades after their first flybys; yet at Pluto we’re there already – down among the craters, mountains and ice fields – less than five months after flyby! The science we can do with these images is simply unbelievable."

It will take New Horizons a bit more than a year to beam home the wealth of data it collected during its close flyby of Pluto.

A new mosaic hits all the surprising high (and low points) of the Plutonian terrain as hinted at in earlier, lower resolution image downlinks.

The detailed mosaic reveals Pluto's odd, smooth Sputnik Planum and high mountains made of ice. Plus, it reveals some layered craters that allow scientists to potentially understand more about the dwarf planet's geological history, NASA said.

"The mountains bordering Sputnik Planum are absolutely stunning at this resolution," said New Horizons science team member John Spencer said in a statement.

The mountains of Pluto. Image: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

"The new details revealed here, particularly the crumpled ridges in the rubbly material surrounding several of the mountains, reinforce our earlier impression that the mountains are huge ice blocks that have been jostled and tumbled and somehow transported to their present locations," he added.

A new video also shows the strange bits of Pluto's surface in sharp detail, and you can explore a full resolution version of the mosaic directly through NASA.

Pluto's strange geology has continued to surprise scientists.

At first, some researchers expected New Horizons to find a cold, long-dead world, but instead, the spacecraft happened upon a cosmic body that has clearly been geologically active sometime in the recent past, something not thought probable until the probe started beaming back its unprecedented data.

Craters on Pluto. Image: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

New Horizons is now speeding deeper into the Kuiper Belt, on its way toward another icy object on the outskirts of our cosmic neighborhood.

If NASA approves further funding and extends New Horizons' mission, the spacecraft should arrive at the other body — named 2014 MU69 — by 2019, revealing the (probably unexpected) details of yet another world in Pluto's part of space.