In today's image, we see the dwarf planet Pluto as imaged by the New Horizons spacecraft back in July of 2015. Here, we are looking back at Pluto, shortly after the craft passed it, giving us a view of the night side of Pluto and its tenuous, nitrogen atmosphere.

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