All the Pluto Photos from New Horizons' First Big Data Dump

[Voiceover] These are the latest photos

of the once mysterious Pluto,

courtesy of NASA's New Horizons probe.

The last time we heard from New Horizons,

it was zooming away from Pluto

at about 30,000 miles per hour.

Back in July, the little space probe that could

made it's closest approach to the dwarf planet,

snapping photos and furiously taking measurements.

Knowing that we earthlings would be excited to see

what the icy rock really looks like,

NASA made sure that the probe sent

a few high res photos back right away.

Scientists used those to make this super cool

animated fly-over of it's mountains and plains.

After nearly two months of rest, New Horizons

is sending back images again.

These are the first photos from the probe's

intense data dump.

This is what Pluto's surface would look like

from only 1,100 miles away.

It shows the edge of Pluto's famous heart,

the big icy blotch that scientists

are calling Sputnik Planum.

That area is relatively young geologically,

but Pluto also has much older, dark, cratered surfaces,

and even some things that look like windswept dunes.

And Charon, Pluto's biggest moon, has

an impressive geology of it's own.

You can expect lots more where this came from

but the entire download will take a year.