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In Photos: Images of Pluto reveal complex world

WATCH: At NASA, the excitement was overwhelming as the first-ever close-up images of Pluto appeared. No longer distant and obscure, we can now see how complex and geologically active Pluto is. Jackson Proskow reports.

LAUREL, MD – Finally, the images that everyone’s been waiting for: Pluto, up close.

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University revealed detailed images of a far off world, a world we once thought to be barren and simple.

WATCH: New high resolution images of Pluto have been revealed by New Horizons

But how wrong we were.

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Here are, for the first time in history, images of the last of the classical planets. A world once shrouded in mystery is now ours to explore.

The photo reveals new details about Pluto’s largest moon Charon in this photo taken from 466,000 kilometres away. NASA / Handout
This close-up photo of Pluto gave Nasa researchers a surprise: a range of mountains as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 metres). NASA / Handout
This photo shows an abundance of methane ice on the frozen surface of Pluto. NASA / handout
This new photo of Pluto’s moon Hydra shows the “tiny potato-shaped moon,” according to NASA measures 43 kilometres by 33 kilometres. NASA / Handout

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