The photo also shows a haze in the dwarf planets extended nitrogen-rich atmosphere.
It showed haunting low-lying hazes and a strangely familiar, arctic look.
Pluto is surprisingly Earth-like in this regard, added Stern, and no one predicted it.
The images were taken on July 14 and downlinked to Earth on September 13.
NASA released the first images from New Horizons Pluto flyby in July.
The spacecraft began its yearlong download of new images and other data over the Labor Day weekend.
The rougher terrain, which is East of Sputnik is cut by what looks like glaciers.
The spokesman added: The backlighting highlights over a dozen layers of haze in Plutos tenuous but distended atmosphere.
The new Ralph imager panorama also shows glaciers flowing back into Sputnik Planum from this blanketed region.
These features are similar to the frozen streams on the margins of ice caps on Greenland and Antarctica.
Launched in 2006, New Horizons passed by Jupiter in 2007 on its journey to Pluto.
The fastest spacecraft ever, the probe traveled at 30,000 mph on its epic trip.
source: www.techworm.net
