However that image was a combination of real visible and infrared images and was slightly deceiving in terms of color. Explanation: Pluto is mostly brown. Well, I do not like this shot as well as some of the others I have posted here, but I thought to give old Pluto a fair go of it anyway. The images, taken when the spacecraft was 280,000 miles (450,000 kilometers) away, show features as small as 1.4 miles (2.2 kilometers), twice the resolution of the single-image view taken on July 13." Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI/Alex Parker (Source: AP) New Horizons’ Pluto flyby has been a success as the NASA spacecraft has finally given us a glimpse of the cold, icy dwarf planet after a nearly decade long mission. NASA’s scientists took to Reddit to hold an AMA on the New Horizons mission and what they have learnt so far about the dwarf planet. Pluto, left, and its moon, Charon, with differences in surface material and features. The above picture captures the true colors of Pluto as well as the highest surface resolution so far recovered.No spacecraft has yet visited this most distant planet in our Solar System.The above map was created by tracking brightness changes from Earth of Pluto during times when it was being partially eclipsed by its moon Charon. Pluto in True Color Four images from New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) were combined with color data from the Ralph instrument to create this global view of Pluto. Here. And 3 years after the Pluto flyby, the team decided to prepare and publish a more realistic picture of Pluto with the proper and actual Pluto colors for public.. Below image was released on 23 July 2018.. Real Colors of Pluto! (The lower right edge of Pluto in this view currently lacks high-resolution color coverage.) July 20, 2018 The True Colors of Pluto and Charon. Three years after NASA's New Horizons spacecraft gave humankind our first close-up views of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, scientists are still revealing the wonders of these incredible worlds in the outer solar system.