Destination: Pluto — Season 1, Episode 12: Part 12: The Surface of Pluto

Episode synopsis

The New Horizons mission has been a success, and as photographs and data continue to be transmitted back to Earth, scientists can now, for the first time, look at 3D images of the surface of this distant dwarf planet.

About Destination: Pluto

It was a rendezvous a decade in the making. The New Horizons spacecraft rocketed from Earth to provide the first ever close-ups of the farthest planet in our solar system, Pluto. Join New Horizons and its team as it makes its historic approach, revealing a world unlike any other we've ever seen. Interviews with leading team members and planetary scientists will help us unlock the secrets of this far away planet.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Part 1: Close Encounters Of The Plutonian Kind
• E2Part 2: Pluto Or Bust
• E3Part 3: Into The Kuiper Belt
• E4Part 4: The Mapmaker's Dream
• E5Part 5: Looking Back, Looking Forward
• E6Part 6: The Shoals Of Pluto
• E7Part 7: Behind The Scenes With Alan Stern
• E8Part 8: The "Giant Heart" On Pluto
• E9Part 9: The Pluto Flyby
• E10Part 10: New Horizons Calls Home
• E11Part 11: New Horizons - Pluto Flyby Images
• E13Part 13: The Right Stuff