NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft continues to transmit high resolution imagery back to Earth following its July 14, 2015, flyby of Pluto. This flyby was created by stitching together images from the LORRI (Long Range Reconnaissance Imager) and rendering them on a sphere. The flyby begins with a low-altitude look at Norgay Montes (informal), then flies northward over the boundary between Sputnik Planum (informal) and Cthulhu Regio (informal), before turning and drifting slowly east. The highest resolution images acquired thus far have a resolution of 400 m/pixel.
Source: http://blogs.nasa.gov/pluto/2015/09/18/art-meets-science-in-new-pluto-aerial-tour/ (NASA)
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