Most Beautiful Picture
First image of Ultima Thule, January 2, 2019. This image taken by the Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) is the most detailed of Ultima Thule returned so far by the New Horizons spacecraft. It was taken at 5:01 Universal Time on January 1, 2019, just 30 minutes before closest approach from a range of 28,000 kilometers, with an original scale of 140 meters per pixel. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute