Pluto - New Horizons - One Day!!!

If you haven't heard of the New Horizons Pluto mission then you must be living deep underground in a cave with no contact with the outside world!  If that's the case, you're not reading this, so I must assume you aware of New Horizons.  :-)  Tomorrow, July 14th, New Horizons reaches its closest approach to Pluto.  This is NOT a mission that will orbit Pluto.  New Horizons will fly by Pluto, taking data, and then zooming to farther distances in the Solar System.

The awesome thing about this mission is that we've NEVER had detailed surface maps of Pluto's surface.  NEVER!  Prior to this mission, the best image to date was taken from the Hubble Space Telescope, seen below.

Now that's cool, but doesn't tell us much.  Pluto is small and VERY far away, so even Hubble can't get detailed surface images.  

As New Horizons has approached Pluto, we've been teased with several images giving us a glimpse of the surface.  Here's one of the latest.  

Amazing!  Finally we see the surface!  The above image was taken 3 days out, so more details are still to come!  Pay close attention to the news tomorrow!