Color data and high-resolution images of our Solar System's most famous
dwarf planet,
taken by the robotic
New Horizons spacecraft during its
flyby in 2015 July,
have been digitally combined to give an
enhanced-color view of this
ancient world sporting an unexpectedly young surface.

The featured enhanced color image is not only
esthetically pretty but scientifically useful,
making surface regions of differing chemical composition visually distinct.

For example, the light-colored heart-shaped
Tombaugh Regio on the lower right is clearly shown here
to be divisible into two regions that are
geologically
different, with the leftmost lobe,
Sputnik Planitia, also appearing unusually smooth.

After Pluto, New Horizons continued on, shooting
past asteroid Arrokoth in 2019 with enough
speed to escape our
Solar
System completely.