New NASA images reveal Pluto’s giant ice mountains.

The latest images from Pluto taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft show amazing new details about the dwarf planet’s atmosphere, weather patterns and streams of frozen nitrogen. NASA is calling it “a scientific bonanza.”

A stunning panoramic image of Pluto’s crescent, backlit by the Sun shining through the world’s hazy atmosphere, was taken just two months ago by NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft,and downloaded to Earth on September 13. It is the first spacecraft to fly by Pluto and record images of the intriguing icy dwarf planet.