Mosaic of the best Pluto images so far

New Horizons has transmitted all of its quick-look set of compressed images, and we will probably have to wait two months to see any more.  So Damian Peach has used the hi-res raw LORRI images from the New Horizons website to make a mosaic of the Heart region, and colorised it from lower-resolution images.  It can be seen here:

http://www.damianpeach.com/plutonh/sputnik_mosaic_col.jpg

This really shows the topography of this strange new world to best advantage.

Also, the New Horizons team have posted a cylindrical-projection map on the NH web site (though it is not at full resolution):

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Science-Photos/image.php?gallery_id=2&image_id=254

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