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The photos taken from the New Horizons spacecraft helped NASA create a complete image of Pluto that depicts its full rotation. These images were captured by Long Range Reconnaissance Imager when it flew by the planet in mid-July. During this time, the distance between New Horizon and Pluto was close to 400,000 miles from 5 Million miles. A day on Pluto is equal to 6 ½ days on Earth, which much slower than our planet. The images that were revealed by NASA show not only its full spin but also its large moon called Charon, reports Huffington Post.

The Pluto images have huge variations in definition. The most detailed image was featured at 6 o'clock position and the one at 3 o'clock was the blurriest. The image quality and its disproportion is due to new approach of the New Horizons Probe to Pluto that closed in on the planet by about 5 million miles. The the dimple like marks on the lower part of the image of Pluto is not a geographical character but thing that occurs when you piece the images together to create a mosaic, as reported by NASA.

The most detailed image can be seen at 12 o'clock position when the probe was the closest to the planet on 14^th July. These images and several like these show significant details about the moon Charon. They also reveal a lot about the difference between far side hemisphere and the encounter hemisphere that can only be detected in low resolution images, according to Space Daily. Charon, just like Pluto, takes 6.4 Earth days to complete one rotation. The new synthetic perspective revealed by NASA of Pluto shows an even more diverse landscape than the scientists anticipated before New Horizons flew past the dwarf planet.